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I think you underestimate the difficulty of this concept. It's natural to me now, but I remember when I was first learning about this stuff, it took me months of on and off again study to understand why you do stuff, how you do stuff, and what's dumb to do, and that's just for learning the basics. If you hang out with someone who know's what they're doing, they can teach you what to do in a few pithy sentences, but the stuff about entropy and the differences between encryption, authentication, and hashing etc take time, as well as understanding what the nature of the likely attacks against these are.

That is to say, you can tell someone to google and they'll find "Use bcrypt", but they'll still feel scared and confused because they don't even know if this is quality suggestion or not let alone what bcrypt is doing and why it's better than MD5.



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