Technical Writing

Deep Dive Into Hashing and Salting Passwords

Authored a series of blog posts that cover the essentials of using hashing functions and salts to increase password security.

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.

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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 to mitigate password attacks like hash tables

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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.

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