Posts tagged "security"
Password Security for Web Applications 101
User registration and login is a standard feature on interactive Web sites, and passwords are the standard way to protect those accounts. But a password is only effective as long as it's kept secret—and you might not be doing everything you can to protect yours.
Let's say you've finished building the HTML and the server-side validation code for your registration form, and you're now ready to write the code which stores the user's information (probably in a database). How should you handle the password?