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Secure password hashing in Go

SnykSec on December 07, 2023

User credentials are the information required to authenticate a user's identity and grant them access to a system or application. Typically, this i...
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Iñigo Etxaniz

Very interesting... I normaly use GenerateFromPassword and CompareHashAndPassword from bcrypt. But, after reading your article I should consider to move to argon2 or scrypt.

What about cpu load? Are argon2 and scrypt more resource intensive?