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Mastering Django: Core

Mastering Django: Core

By : Nigel George
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Mastering Django: Core

Mastering Django: Core

By: Nigel George

Overview of this book

Mastering Django: Core is a completely revised and updated version of the original Django Book, written by Adrian Holovaty and Jacob Kaplan-Moss - the creators of Django. The main goal of this book is to make you a Django expert. By reading this book, you’ll learn the skills needed to develop powerful websites quickly, with code that is clean and easy to maintain. This book is also a programmer’s manual that provides complete coverage of the current Long Term Support (LTS) version of Django. For developers creating applications for commercial and business critical deployments, Mastering Django: Core provides a complete, up-to-date resource for Django 1.8LTS with a stable code-base, security fixes and support out to 2018.
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1. Introduction to Django and Getting Started

Password management in Django


Password management is something that should generally not be reinvented unnecessarily, and Django endeavors to provide a secure and flexible set of tools for managing user passwords. This document describes how Django stores passwords, how the storage hashing can be configured, and some utilities to work with hashed passwords.

How Django stores passwords

Django provides a flexible password storage system and uses PBKDF2 (for more information visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBKDF2) by default. The password attribute of a User object is a string in this format:

<algorithm>$<iterations>$<salt>$<hash> 

Those are the components used for storing a User's password, separated by the dollar-sign character and consist of: the hashing algorithm, the number of algorithm iterations (work factor), the random salt, and the resulting password hash.

The algorithm is one of a number of one-way hashing or password storage algorithms Django can use...

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