Store Password Field in Encryption Form Using MySQL and Hibernate

Question

I am using Spring, Hibernate for developing my application. And as DB side, I have MySQL. I have an User table and that has password field of varchar type.

Now, when a new user is created, I just want store password field in an encrypted form. Is there any facility provided by Hibernate to do so? Or is there any other way?

Answer 1

You might want to take a look at this thread which provides good answers for the same question:

Password encryption with Spring/Hibernate - Jasypt or something else?

In short, using a one-way hashing algorithm with salt to encrypt the password is the de-facto way of doing this.