Hash Passwords, Never Store Plaintext
Use Werkzeug to hash and verify passwords.
Plaintext Is a Disaster
If you store passwords as plaintext, one database leak hands attackers every account at once. The first rule of auth is simple: never save the raw password. 🔒
Hashing, Not Encrypting
You protect passwords with hashing, a one-way transform. Unlike encryption, a hash cannot be reversed back into the original password, even by you.
All lessons in this course
- Hash Passwords, Never Store Plaintext
- User Loader and the UserMixin
- login_user, logout_user, and Sessions
- Protect Views with login_required