Ang mga password ay dapat na ligtas na ma-imbak — hindi kailanman sa plaintext, kundi hashed gamit ang isang malakas, mabagal, at salted password-hashing algorithm (bcrypt, Argon2, scrypt). Ang tamang pangangasiwan ng password ay kritikal dahil ang mga password breaches ay lubhang nakakasama at karaniwan.
Hindi mag-imbak ng plaintext; mag-hash nang tama
❌ NEVER store passwords in plaintext (a breach exposes all passwords directly)
❌ Don't use fast/general hashes (MD5, SHA-256) alone — too fast → easily brute-forced
✅ HASH with a dedicated PASSWORD HASHING algorithm: BCRYPT, ARGON2, or scrypt:
→ SLOW by design (resistant to brute-force/GPU cracking)
→ SALTED (a unique random salt per password) → prevents rainbow-table attacks and
identical passwords hashing the same
