How to store passwords *correctly*?

Question

An article that I stumbled upon here in SO provided links to other articles which in turn provided links to even more articles etc.

And in the end I was left complet

Answer 1

Simply said, use a cryptographically secure hash algorithm and some salt for the passwords, that should be good enough for 99.99% of all use cases. The weak link will be the code that checks the password as well as the password input.