IITM Journal of Management and IT
  • Year: 2015
  • Volume: 6
  • Issue: 1

Method for Storing User Password Securely

  • Author:
  • Gunjan Jha1, Navneet Popli2
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • Page Number: 95 to 99

1GGSIP University (Meri College)

2GGSIP University (Meri College)

Online published on 27 November, 2015.

Abstract

Computer users are asked to generate, secret passwords for uses host accounts, email, e-commerce sites, and various online services. In this paper, I'll explain the theory for how to store user passwords securely; we propose technique that uses hashing, salting and Bcrypt to compute secure passwords for many accounts while needed user to memorize only a single short password. The combination of security and convenience will, we believe, entice users to adopt our method, we discuss various methods, compare its strengths and weaknesses to those of related approaches.

Keywords

Password Security, website user authentication, hashing, salting, Bcrypt