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Glossary: Change Records, Cryptography and PKI

Argon2id

A deliberately slow password hashing method, used with a salt, that makes each guess expensive for an attacker. Alex moves the shop's customer passwords to a method such as Argon2id or bcrypt.

Where the book teaches it

Related terms

bcryptscryptPBKDF2 (Password-Based Key Derivation Function 2)saltingkey stretching