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Here's a fun list to look through: Dumb Password Rules. Most of the rules seem arbitrary, like only allowing digits, but some hint at deeper problems. For instance, preventing single-quotes. They aren't inserting passwords into a database without a SQL placeholder, right? Nearly every site on that list has a needlessly short maximum password size. If they're storing passwords correctly, there's no need for this. This post will go through a few bad ways to store a password and you can see what I mean....
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How to hash passwords properly using salt. Why hashes should be salted and how to use salt correctly.
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About the many types of hash functions, their use-cases, dos and don'ts, with suggestions for currently accepted algorithms.
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