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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/topics/auth/passwords.txt | 5 |
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diff --git a/docs/topics/auth/passwords.txt b/docs/topics/auth/passwords.txt index 25c98bf786..cd6fdea811 100644 --- a/docs/topics/auth/passwords.txt +++ b/docs/topics/auth/passwords.txt @@ -83,13 +83,14 @@ Using Argon2 with Django Argon2_ is the winner of the 2015 `Password Hashing Competition`_, a community organized open competition to select a next generation hashing algorithm. It's designed not to be easier to compute on custom hardware than it is to compute -on an ordinary CPU. +on an ordinary CPU. The default variant for the Argon2 password hasher is +Argon2id. Argon2_ is not the default for Django because it requires a third-party library. The Password Hashing Competition panel, however, recommends immediate use of Argon2 rather than the other algorithms supported by Django. -To use Argon2 as your default storage algorithm, do the following: +To use Argon2id as your default storage algorithm, do the following: #. Install the `argon2-cffi library`_. This can be done by running ``python -m pip install django[argon2]``, which is equivalent to |