Argon2 Password Hashing

I recently had the opportunity to change the password hashing algorithm we used in one of our services. In this post, we briefly compare the older SHA-256 algorithm with a more modern implementation that is Argon2id. I will shed some light on some statistics you can use to make the right choice of parameters for the Argon2 algorithm with respect to memory cost and compute cost. I have also shared the code snippet I used to carry out my research spike.

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