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Update password storage reference link
The Codahale password-storage article link was no longer accessible, so I updated it to a new credible resource covering secure password storage best practices.
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The password sent in the request is <i>not</i> stored in the database. We store the <i>hash</i> of the password that is generated with the _bcrypt.hash_ function.
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The fundamentals of [storing passwords](https://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/) are outside the scope of this course material. We will not discuss what the magic number 10 assigned to the [saltRounds](https://github.com/kelektiv/node.bcrypt.js/#a-note-on-rounds) variable means, but you can read more about it in the linked material.
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The fundamentals of [storing passwords](https://bytebytego.com/guides/how-to-store-passwords-in-the-database/) are outside the scope of this course material. We will not discuss what the magic number 10 assigned to the [saltRounds](https://github.com/kelektiv/node.bcrypt.js/#a-note-on-rounds) variable means, but you can read more about it in the linked material.
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Our current code does not contain any error handling or input validation for verifying that the username and password are in the desired format.
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