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identity & security
Jan 17, 2025 • 13 min read
Adding Salt to Hashing: A Better Way to Store Passwords
A salt is added to the hashing process to force their uniqueness, increase their complexity without increasing user requirements, and mitigate password attacks like hash tables
Dan Arias
identity & security
Mar 27, 2024 • 12 min read
Post-Quantum Cryptography: Preparing for the Future of Security
Quantum computers may not be here yet, but we still need to prepare for them.
Jon Elliott
developers
Mar 2, 2022 • 9 min read
Encoding, Encryption, and Hashing
Encoding, Encryption, and Hashing have different goals and shouldn't be confused. Learn the differences.
Andrea Chiarelli
identity & security
Feb 25, 2021 • 17 min read
Hashing in Action: Understanding bcrypt
The bcrypt hashing function allows us to build a password security platform that scales with computation power and always hashes every password with a salt.
Dan Arias
identity & security
Sep 30, 2019 • 16 min read
Hashing Passwords: One-Way Road to Security
A strong password storage strategy is critical to mitigating data breaches that put the reputation of any organization in danger. Hashing is the foundation of secure password storage.
Dan Arias
identity & security
Aug 21, 2019 • 16 min read
How Secure Are Encryption, Hashing, Encoding and Obfuscation?
Cryptography has three key properties: confidentiality, integrity, and authenticity. Let’s learn which of these apply to encryption, hashing, encoding, and obfuscation.
Multiple authors
identity & security
Dec 19, 2018 • 5 min read
10 Most-Popular Identity Posts in 2018
Our 10 most-popular identity posts in 2018 ranging from auth standards to web authentication.
Ramiro Nunez Dosio
identity & security
May 11, 2017 • 7 min read
Data Breaches by the Numbers
By failing to plan for data breaches, you leave yourself vulnerable to inevitable attacks
Diego Poza