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PHP

Soumodeep Bhowmick
Soumodeep Bhowmick
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Posted by Soumodeep Bhowmick
Soumodeep Bhowmick
4,062 Points

Can anyone explain me the process of password hashing in PHP?

How to generate salt and a hash?

Jesse Rushlow
Jesse Rushlow
Courses Plus Student 2,828 Points
Jesse Rushlow
Jesse Rushlow
Courses Plus Student 2,828 Points

Have a look at the PHP Documentation

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.password-hash.php

General concept:

$hash = password_hash("rasmuslerdorf", PASSWORD_DEFAULT);

It would be a good idea to validate and escape any user supplied password before creating a hash. Don't want malicious code getting in the way of your program...

Stack Exchange also has a wealth of information regarding hashing passwords and general password security for php. As does the php documentation.