In-depth, practical guides tagged security.
Encoding is not encryption, and hashing is neither. Mixing them up causes real security mistakes. Here's the plain-English difference.
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A JWT is not encrypted. Its header and payload are just base64url and anyone can read them. Here's how, and what decoding does not prove.
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MD5 is fine for a quick checksum but unsafe against tampering. SHA-256 is the secure default. Neither is right for passwords on its own.
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