#cryptography

A password hash is the one function in your codebase you want to be slow. One RTX 4090 runs MD5 at 164 billion guesses a second and bcrypt at 184 thousand. Here are the parameters OWASP, RFC 9106 and NIST actually publish, and why memory cost is the setting that hurts an attacker most.

The deadlines are set, the standards are final, and 91% of businesses still have no roadmap. The uncomfortable truth is that you can't migrate what you can't see, so the first task isn't picking an algorithm, it's building an inventory of every place you use crypto.