14th July 2020
TIL
Password hashing in Python with pbkdf2
— I was researching password hashing for [datasette-auth-passwords](https://github.com/simonw/datasette-auth-passwords). I wanted very secure defaults that would work using the Python standard library without any extra dependencies.
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