Secure Password Hashing

Question

I need to store a hash of a single password in a .Net WinForms application.

What\'s the most secure way to do this?

In particular:

• Salt, HMAC,

Answer 1

You could follow a published standard, like pkcs#5. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PKCS for a short description, or http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2898 for the RFC.