SALT and HASH password in nodejs w/ crypto

Question

I am trying to figure out how to salt and hash a password in nodejs using the crypto module. I am able to create the hashed password doing this:

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Answer 1

There are two major steps involved in this scenario

1) Creating and Storing password

Here you will have to do the following.

• Take the user password
• Generate a string of random chars (salt)
• Combine the salt with the user entered password
• Hash the combined string.
• Store the hash and the salt in the database.

2) Validating user password

This step would be required to authenticate the user.

• The user will enter the username/email and the password.

• Fetch the hash and the salt based on the username entered

• Combine the salt with the user password

• Hash the combination with the same hashing algorithm.

• Compare the result.

This tutorial has a detailed explaination on how to do it with nodejs crypto. Exactly what you are looking for. Salt Hash passwords using NodeJS crypto