Key Features
- Security: Uses a computationally intensive hashing algorithm to make brute-force attacks difficult.
- Salting: Adds a unique salt to each password to ensure that even if two users have the same password, their hashes will be different.
- Cross-Platform: Works across different operating systems and platforms.
Password Encryption in Node.js using bcryptjs Module
When developing applications, one of the critical aspects of user authentication is ensuring that passwords are stored securely. Plain text storage of passwords is a significant security risk. Instead, passwords should be encrypted using strong hashing algorithms. In Node.js, one of the popular modules for this purpose is bcryptjs
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