Hashing User Passwords Using bcrypt in Python

Web-based services and websites store hashed versions of your passwords, which means your actual password isn't visible or stored in their database instead a string of fixed-length characters is stored.

Hashing is a security technique used to secure your passwords or texts stored in databases. A hash function is used to generate a string of unique fixed-length characters from the provided password by the user.

Let's see how the hashing is done. In this article, you'll use the bcrypt library …

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