According to security experts, one of the most secure IoT systems is one in which the hacker
cannot find anything worth stealing. To do this, one of the strategies which are used is the stor-
age of hashed passwords. If you are unaware about hash then it is a popular cryptographic
function which receives input and creates a response in the form of irreversible, distinct, and
consistent bits.
A well-designed hash algorithm is extremely unlikely to be reversed. In layman terms, after
the hashing of a password, one must not be able to re-arrange it to guess the original password.
However, this hash can help in the validation of the ...
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