what is the most/ a popular library companies use...
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b
what is the most/ a popular library companies use to store sensitive information like social security number, passwords, etc. into a database?
v
Never ever ever ever ever ever write any password to any database or other persistent storage. That is a very big security no-no.
Always only write password hashes to the storage, then there is no way the password could be extracted by any vulnerability or similar
b
ty!
v
scrypt is currently pretty good as password "hash" afair
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c
Also never store authentication tokens. Exact same reason
k
Hashes are generally one-way only, so if the application being written is a password manager, it would require the ability to transform in both directions.
v
Of course, but that is pretty unlikely with that question. 😄