To Store a Password
- Generate a long random salt using a CSPRNG.
- Prepend the salt to the password and hash it with a standard cryptographic hash function such as SHA256.
- Save both the salt and the hash in the user’s database record.
To Validate a Password
- Retrieve the user’s salt and hash from the database.
- Prepend the salt to the given password and hash it using the same hash function.
- Compare the hash of the given password with the hash from the database. If they match, the password is correct. Otherwise, the password is incorrect.