Preferred Method of Storing Passwords In Database

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I store the salted hash equivalent of the password in the database and never the password itself, then always compare the hash to the generated one of what the user passed in.

It’s too dangerous to ever store the literal password data anywhere. This makes recovery impossible, but when someone forgets or loses a password you can run through some checks and create a new password.

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