Process of Verifying Users
Explore the process of verifying users by maintaining a list of known usernames and securely validating passwords using hashing techniques in PHP. Understand why storing password hashes instead of plain passwords is critical, and how matching password hashes ensures user authentication.
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Maintaining a list of known users
To determine if the user has provided the correct combination of username and password, we have to do two things:
- Look at the list of known users
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