How Are Passwords Stored?

 ALMOST ALL OF YOU USE PASSWORDS TO SECURE YOUR ACCOUNT,DONT YOU?

-Where are these passwords stored Are they safe?

-Different ways of storing your passwords?

-Are passwords even secure?

-Are they hackable?

-I will be addressing these questions in this post,sounds interesting?

3 WAYS OF STORING PASSWORDS

-Plain text

-Encryption

-Hashing

PLAIN TEXT

This is the most dangerous way of

storing password

-If a hacker breaches the companies

database, the hacker can see the password of users.

-And if you use the same password

for multiple accounts, you're doomed

ENCRYPTION

-The passWord is encrypted (encoded

data)

-If the hacker manages to get the encryption key somehow, your password will be breached because its plain text (your password) underneath the encryption.

HASHING

This is by far the most secure way of

storing passwords. The password is

hashed betore storing, Hashing is a

one-way process, means that a hashed password can't be converted back to the original password.

-MD5 hash for "hello world" is "5eb63b

bbe0leeed093cb22bb8fSacdc3"

-Passwords are stored using hashing

and we add some 'salt' to make it even more secure.

THE SECURITY OF YoUR PASSWORD DEPENDS ON THE TYPE OF STORAGE AND MANY OTHER FACTORS.

HOW TO KNOW IF YOU'VE BEEN PWNED?

Go to haveibeenpwned.com

and enter your email, this website Will show you if your passWord has been

leaked in any data breach or not.