Hi, What is the best method of storing user passwords for a system?
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In summary, here is our minimum recommendation for safe storage of your users’ passwords: Use a strong random number generator to create a salt of 16 bytes or longer. Feed the salt and the password into the PBKDF2 algorithm. Use HMAC-SHA-256 as the core hash inside PBKDF2.