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mentioning the default strength of BCryptPasswordEncoder

Mazharul Islam 5 years ago
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docs/manual/src/docs/asciidoc/_includes/about/authentication/password-storage.adoc

@@ -324,6 +324,8 @@ https://docs.spring.io/spring-security/site/docs/5.0.x/api/org/springframework/s
 The `BCryptPasswordEncoder` implementation uses the widely supported https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bcrypt[bcrypt] algorithm to hash the passwords.
 The `BCryptPasswordEncoder` implementation uses the widely supported https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bcrypt[bcrypt] algorithm to hash the passwords.
 In order to make it more resistent to password cracking, bcrypt is deliberately slow.
 In order to make it more resistent to password cracking, bcrypt is deliberately slow.
 Like other adaptive one-way functions, it should be tuned to take about 1 second to verify a password on your system.
 Like other adaptive one-way functions, it should be tuned to take about 1 second to verify a password on your system.
+The default implementation of `BCryptPasswordEncoder` uses strength 10 as mentioned on the Javadoc of https://docs.spring.io/spring-security/site/docs/current/api/org/springframework/security/crypto/bcrypt/BCryptPasswordEncoder.html[BCryptPasswordEncoder]. Your are encouagred to
+tune and test the strength parameter on your own system so that it take roughly 1 second to verify a password.
 
 
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