Security
work factor
tunable slowness
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AuthenticationSecurityMore terms from this board
- authentication (authN)prove who you are
- authorization (authZ)what you may do
- bcrypt/scrypt/argon2slow, memory-hard password hashes
- factorsknow/have/are
- httpOnly / Secure / SameSitecookie flags (XSS-safe / HTTPS-only / CSRF-blocking)
- MFA2+ factors
- pepperapp-wide secret added before hashing
- rainbow tableprecomputed hash→password lookup
- refresh tokenre-issues short-lived access tokens
- saltrandom per-user value defeating rainbow tables
- sessionserver-side state + a cookie id (revocable)
- token/JWTstateless signed credential (scales, hard to revoke)
- TOTPtime-based one-time code (HMAC of the clock)
- WebAuthn / passkeysphishing-resistant hardware auth