Password hashing

[eandersons]

Does Litestar have tools that would help with hashing and checking passwords? I could not find anything in this regard. Or that is something that is left for the developer to decide what to use and how to implement this?

[provinzkraut]

No, it does not

[eandersons]

I did not think of searching in Python documentation before asking the question, which would lead to the information that the standard Python library provides what is needed for password hashing:

• crypt points to bcrypt (and some other options);

• bcrypt points back to Python standard library: hashlib.scrypt (among other options; and crypt mentioned above also points to hashlib):

  Acceptable password hashing for your software and your servers (but you should really use argon2id or scrypt)

  While bcrypt remains an acceptable choice for password storage, depending on your specific use case you may also want to consider using scrypt (either via standard library or cryptography) [..]