How to store passwords securely using carchive

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Iam creating an application that requires to store passwords in file. Iam planning to use CArchive. I want to encrypt the data before saving.
After googling i think BCryptEncrypt is the only option. Which algorithm is best for password saving. Please advice. Please provide any sample code also

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Need help with usage of BCryptENcrypt API

Posted 17-Mar-18 21:12pm

dilsdgr8

Updated 17-Mar-18 22:30pm

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2018-03-17T21:23:00

Depends: if these are the passwords that people will use to log into your application, then you should not encrypt them at all: they should be hashed instead. There is an explanation of why and what the difference is here: Password Storage: How to do it.[^] - the code is C#, but it's pretty obvious and shouldn't be a problem to translate.