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Problem/Issue

The passwords can be seen by anyone who has access to the database. This is a huge security risk.
DecisionUsing Argon2, we can hash the passwords of users, so that a hashed password is stored in the database. This prevents hackers from seeing someone elses password.
AlternativesSHA-512, MD5, PBKDF2, BCrypt, and SCrypt (Millington, 2022)
ArgumentsFrom a comment in Baeldung (Millington, 2022), I saw . Argon2 being suggested. Going to the Supertokens website (Supertokens Team, 2022), I found There is a tool that detects how safely a password is. With that Supertokens also recommended to use this hashing tool this march, which is quite recent. It uses more resources from your computer, but it makes a stronger password from it. Regterschot Racing required minimum security, that also includes a hashed password.

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