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Bcrypt

Hashing

Hash a password with bcrypt and verify against an existing hash.

What this tool helps with

bcrypt is a deliberately slow, salted password hash designed to make brute-force attacks expensive even on modern hardware. Each hash contains its cost factor and salt, so verifying a password is self-contained — there's no separate salt column. This tool generates a bcrypt hash for a chosen cost and verifies a candidate password against an existing hash, in your browser, so the password and the hash never leave the page.

How to use Bcrypt

  1. Open the Bcrypt page and paste, type, or generate the bcrypt input you want to work with.
  2. Pick the options you need so the tool can hash a password with bcrypt and verify against an existing hash
  3. Copy the hash result with one click and use it in your next step — terminal, editor, ticket, or anywhere else you need it.

Common uses

  • Reach for Bcrypt when you need to hash a password with bcrypt and verify against an existing hash during debugging, code review, or content preparation.
  • Skip installing a desktop bcrypt app — open this hashing utility on a shared machine, an iPad, or a colleague's laptop and it just works.
  • Bookmark or share the page when you and your team keep coming back to the same bcrypt, hash, password, and verify workflow.

FAQ

What cost factor should I use?

Pick a cost that takes roughly 250ms on your verification server. That's slow enough to frustrate an attacker, fast enough for users not to notice. As of 2026 that's around cost 12; reassess as hardware improves.

Why does the same password produce different hashes?

Each hash is computed with a fresh random salt baked into the output. Two hashes of the same password are intentionally different — and both correctly verify against that password.

Should I still use bcrypt or move to Argon2?

Argon2 is the modern recommendation for new systems because it's also memory-hard. bcrypt remains a sound choice and is still ubiquitous; both are vastly better than a plain SHA. Don't migrate just for the sake of it.

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