Hashing... First Step to Secure Software Programming
Where it all started? Anyone in the field of programming wouldn't have missed the chance of implementing a login page. This login page might look very simple and straightforward. But in reality, it is not. What most of us would have done for our first login page is a simple string comparison for both username and password which might have already been hard-coded in the program. Some might have retrieved the username and password from the database and compared it with the user entering credentials based on roles. If we think about this scenario in a real-world enterprise or corporate level applications, the authentication procedure will not take place as simple as that. Authentication Authentication is all about ensuring that the system is being accessed by the correct user. Authentication plays a very important role in most of the systems or applications. The reason is to prevent the system from unauthorized access. Authentication methodologies 1. Username Password authentic