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Day 37 of #100DaysOfCode — Authentication Part I: Hashing Passwords
Community description: When building authentication systems, one of the biggest security mistakes that can be made is...
Dev.to | Mar 10, 2026 | M Saad Ahmad
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That’s why modern applications never store real passwords — they store hashed passwords. Now the database stores only the hashed password. Never store plain-text passwords in a production application.
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