Login and passwords

Notes about hashing passwords... slow, one way.

There is a password helper which is a basic wrapper for:

Where it provides a fallback via crypt, and it uses a password normalisation process (to avoid some edge case issues).


There are 2 password reset methods, the email version does not expose a list of valid accounts... also does rate limiting.

Note about session fixation... and possibly CSRF (it uses the form helper).