IntroductionIn today's digital world, passwords play a crucial role in protecting personal privacy and information security. Passwords are the most commonly used means of authentication because they are simple yet effective. Password security is the cornerstone of cybersecurity and plays a fundamental role in safeguarding the information security of individuals and organizations. However, with the increasing frequency and complexity of cyberattacks, traditional password hashing algorithms like MD5 and SHA series have proven to be inadequate against modern security threats. Therefore, using str...

bcrypt() is a sophisticated and secure hash algorithm designed by The OpenBSD project for hashing passwords. The bcrypt Ruby gem provides a simple wrapper for safely handling passwords.However, sometimes the rails application would fail to start after installing the bcrypt gem on Windows. The error would look similar to below.The issue is that it fails to load the bcrypt_ext which is the native built extension, the reason may be the library is wrongly built. To fix this issue, below steps can be followed. Open a command consolecd to the gem directory C:\RailsInstaller\Ruby2.2.0\...