Magento 2 Password Encryption Algorithms

Magento 2 Magento using its own Technique for password hashing by following below Technique (One of the best Strongest Web Password Encryption algorithms).

[1] Password Hash –

[2] Salt –

[3] SHA256 –

[4] Argon 2ID13 –

Magento 2 Password collection of all above Password algorithms

Magento 2 Password = Password Hash + Salt + SHA256 + Argon 2ID13

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Magento 2 always stored password as above format

Fist Part=password hash

password hash=6f98f4b6dd20dad5f00f97aa08541fb29c728fc1b8ce32b23bc11c66f792528c

Second Part=Salt=T2izWsU9DcHN1HJ

The last two are the different hash algorithms:

1 is SHA256 and 2 is Argon 2ID13.

This means that the customer’s password was originally hashed with SHA256 and after that, the algorithm was updated with Argon 2ID13 and the hash was re-hashed with Argon.

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