How to Store Passwords - A Tutorial on Hashing and Salting

Learn more advanced front-end and full-stack development at: https://www.fullstackacademy.com In this tutorial, we attempt to decrypt the world of password storage and answer such questions as: How are passwords stored in a way that's safe? What are some of the ways that these safeguards can be attacked? What is a salt and what makes a good cryptographic hash function? What is SHA-1 and why shouldn't we use it anymore? Watch this video to learn: - How to safely store passwords - How hash functions work - The benefits of salting one's hashes