Indeed, it pertains to a UserHashedTableAuth. However, Ktor does not support password hashing algorithms such as Argon2, scrypt, bcrypt, among others. After conducting some research, I discovered that [org.bouncycastle.crypto.generators](
https://www.bouncycastle.org/docs/docs1.8on/index.html) appears to be a suitable solution for my needs. Many thanks to everyone!