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Password hashing with Argon2 and bcrypt migration paths

Kai Nakamura Apr 2026

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from argon2 import PasswordHasher

password_hasher = PasswordHasher(
    time_cost=3,
    memory_cost=65536,
    parallelism=4,
)

password_hash = password_hasher.hash('correct horse battery staple')
password_hasher.verify(password_hash, 'correct horse battery staple')

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Passwords should never be encrypted for later recovery. I store slow one-way hashes, tune work factors for current hardware, and maintain a rehash path when users log in with older credentials. Argon2id is my first choice for new systems, while bcrypt remains a strong practical baseline.

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