How to hash a password

Question

I\'d like to store the hash of a password on the phone, but I\'m not sure how to do it. I can only seem to find encryption methods. How should the password be hashed properl

Answer 1

Use the below class to Generate a Salt first. Each user needs to have a different salt, we can save it in the database along with the other user properties. The rounds value decides the number of times the password will be hashed.

For more details: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.security.cryptography.rfc2898derivebytes.-ctor?view=netcore-3.1#System_Security_Cryptography_Rfc2898DeriveBytes__ctor_System_Byte___System_Byte___System_Int32_

public class HashSaltWithRounds
{
    int saltLength = 32;
    public byte[] GenerateSalt()
    {
        using (var randomNumberGenerator = new RNGCryptoServiceProvider())
        {
            var randomNumber = new byte[saltLength];
            randomNumberGenerator.GetBytes(randomNumber);
            return randomNumber;
        }
    }

    public string HashDataWithRounds(byte[] password, byte[] salt, int rounds)
    {
        using(var rfc2898= new Rfc2898DeriveBytes(password, salt, rounds))
        {
            return Convert.ToBase64String(rfc2898.GetBytes(32));
        }
    }
}

We can call it from a console application as follows. I have hashed the password twice using the same salt.

public class Program
{
    public static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        int numberOfIterations = 99;
        var hashFunction = new HashSaltWithRounds();

        string password = "Your Password Here";
        byte[] salt = hashFunction.GenerateSalt();

        var hashedPassword1 = hashFunction.HashDataWithRounds(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(password), salt, numberOfIterations);
        var hashedPassword2 = hashFunction.HashDataWithRounds(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(password), salt, numberOfIterations);

        Console.WriteLine($"hashedPassword1 :{hashedPassword1}");
        Console.WriteLine($"hashedPassword2 :{hashedPassword2}");
        Console.WriteLine(hashedPassword1.Equals(hashedPassword2));

        Console.ReadLine();

    }
}