Nov. 5, 2023, 3:55 p.m. | Deon Pillsbury

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When building an application that validates user passwords or needs to store tokens for future use it is critical to not store these values anywhere in clear text. If there is a security breach you want to be confident that your user’s data is protected. Hashing and Encryption are a couple of techniques which can be used to achieve this and we will take a look at how to implement these with Python.





Hashing


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