password-hashing

A short project dedicated to learning about password hashing, salts, and asynchronous events. Made with Node.js and bcrypt

Table of contents

• Features
• What I Learned
• Technologies
• Special Thanks

Features

• Easily change the two passwords to be compared and the number of salt rounds
• Displays and compares the two hashes as well as the salt

Future Features

• Add visual interface through html

What I Learned

• await can be used to handle asynchronous password hashing, which is preferable because password hashing is an intensive task
• await only pauses execution (and waits for the Promise to resolve) for the next line in the function block
• If code is dependent on the Promise resolving (in this case, the hash being calculated), it should be placed in the same block as the await statement
• Otherwise, the event loop will continue executing synchronous functions while the Promise resolves

Technologies

Project is created with:

• node.js
• bcrypt.js

Special Thanks

• Thank you to heynode.com for providing such a stellar bcrypt tutorial
• Link to Tutorial