The effectiveness of using certain hashing algorithms for a web application with user registration and authentication interfaces

Abstract

The effectiveness of using certain hashing algorithms for a web application with user registration and authentication interfaces

Ajdinyan A.R., Legonko O.L, Mamonov N.S.

Incoming article date: 09.06.2025

The article presents the results of a study on the effectiveness of the hashing algorithms Argon2, Scrypt, and Bcrypt in the context of developing web applications with user registration and authentication features. The main focus of this research is on analyzing the algorithms' resilience to brute-force attacks, hardware attacks (GPU/ASIC), as well as evaluating their computational performance. The results of the experiments demonstrate the advantages of Scrypt in terms of balancing execution time and security. Recommendations for selecting algorithms based on security and performance requirements are also provided.

Keywords: hashing algorithm, user registration interface, user authentication interface, privacy protection