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What would be the best hash algorithm when storing a password?
SHA256 (Secure Hash Algorithm 256)
AES (Advanced Encryption Standard)
MD5 (Message-Digest Algorithm)
SHA1 (Secure Hash Algorithm 1)
SHA256 is the best hash for to secure a password. For Hash algorithms SHA1 is insecure, MD5 is easily brute-forced as it is fast. And AES is a symmetric encryption algorithm. Comment: Technically SHA256 is a function of SHA-2, not an algorithm (Wiki). *** Hashes are not reversible. How can you store something that you can not recover later on. This question does not make any sense what so ever. ***. Response (BkM) Passwords, especially for websites, are stored as hashes for the exact reason that you can use then to authenticate but if they get stolen are near impossible to reverse engineer. This is a bad question because if this was in reference to something like a password manager, you would not hash, you would encrypt the stored password. Changed "to store" to "When Storing" hope it clears it up.
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