Article on Spring Security 2: Hashing and salting passwords

Willie Wheeler — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 06:33:22 +0000

One of the things that I’ve discovered during the writing of this book is 600 pages sounds a lot bigger than it actually is. In writing about Spring Security 2, John and I have been forced to be pretty selective about the recipes that we include. There just isn’t enough room to cover it all.

One of the casualties was a recipe I wrote about using Spring Security 2 to hash and salt passwords. I’d already written a general article on hashing and salting passwords on my website, but I also wrote one on using Spring Security 2 specifically. But it just didn’t fit into our chapters.

It wasn’t for naught, though. It’s a perfectly good recipe, so I just put it on my website so people can see what kind of information they might expect to find in the book.

Here it is. Hope you enjoy it!

http://wheelersoftware.com/articles/spring-security-hash-salt-passwords.html

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Article on Spring Security 2: Hashing and salting passwords