Gestion des Mots de Passe

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Every application must store passwords using a cryptographic technique. FoalTS provides two functions to hash and verify passwords.

The hashPassword function

The hashPassword utility uses the PBKDF2 algorithm with a SHA256 hash. It takes as parameters the password in plain text and an optional options object. It returns a promise which value is a password hash.

The function generates a unique cryptographically-strong random salt for each password. This salt is returned by the function beside the password hash.

const passwordHash = await hashPassword(plainTextPassword);

The verifyPassword function

The verifyPassword takes three arguments:

• the password to check in plain text,
• and the password hash (usually fetched from the database).

const isEqual = await verifyPassword(plainTextPassword, passwordHash);