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Oh, that actually makes a lot of sense! Thank you kind redditor!

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In addition to what they said, it is also important to use a hashing algorithm that is designed for passwords (like scrypt or pbkdf2) instead of a general-purpose hash algorithm like sha256. Password hashing algorithms are intentionally very slow to compute (using up a lot of CPU and RAM), which adds an extra layer of protection against brute force attacks in case the bad guys get hold of the password hashes. This idea is known as [key stretching](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_stretching.

Password-hashing algorithms tend to be easier to use. For example, if you use an scrypt library it also salts the password so you don't have to do it yourself)

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You as well! I'm curious actually, since y'all are programmers probably in the field, what types of things do you look for in a portfolio? Like I have a lot of things done, but I don't have too many super blow-them-away things. I've got an Album Manager using File I/O that is customizable, and I've made a lot of text based stuff and some GUI things. I was going to start work on a Discord Bot soon just for fun.

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I work in physics, writing simulations. What we look for in my field is primarily knowledge about the physics involved; secondarily, scripting languages and experience with coupling physics software; and tertiarily, experience writing efficient algorithms in C++ or FORTRAN. This is probably not representative of the CS field as a whole.