I thought I’d take a few minutes to go over the basics of what I’m going to be accomplishing over the next few weeks. I plan on guiding everyone through some of the basics of building your own user authentication system. This will include many segments varying from storing password information securely, user registration (and required information), password recovery vs. password reset, analyzing security vulnerabilities, possible applications and a wide variety of other topics that could possibly go along.

I will be starting off with a very basic set of security rules that you will need to keep in mind in order to maintain a secure list of users and password information. Without going in to further details, I can’t stress enough the huge mistake that many authentication systems use by limiting the size, type, and strength of a users passwords as well as the mistake of how the information is stored. I plan on analyzing a few preexisting systems and show some fundamental flaws associated with them, and provide tips to help safeguard your data from any unwanted guests.

Please be sure to check back soon, as I will be posting in the next few days.