How can I hash a password in Java?

Question

I need to hash passwords for storage in a database. How can I do this in Java?

I was hoping to take the plain text password, add a random salt, then store the salt a

Answer 1

i leaned that from a video on udemy and edited to be stronger random password

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private String pass() {
        String passswet="1234567890zxcvbbnmasdfghjklop[iuytrtewq@#$%^&*" ;

        char icon1;
        char[] t=new char[20];

         int rand1=(int)(Math.random()*6)+38;//to make a random within the range of special characters

            icon1=passswet.charAt(rand1);//will produce char with a special character

        int i=0;
        while( i <11) {

             int rand=(int)(Math.random()*passswet.length());
             //notice (int) as the original value of Math>random() is double

             t[i] =passswet.charAt(rand);

             i++;
                t[10]=icon1;
//to replace the specified item with icon1
         }
        return new String(t);
}






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