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In the eight part of API authentication with Node series, we'll learn about Bcrypt.

Bcrypt is a popular password hashing function that is used for....well hashing a passwords! Why do we do that? Well, we certainly don't want to store user's passwords in plain text in our databases - that's a huge security risk that you don't want to take.

We'll also go a step further and learn how salting works, which is like another layer of security that we'll add to the password hashing function.

In case you're looking to learn Node, Express, MongoDB, React, client-side validation, server-side validation and more this series should be interesting to you.

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