How JavaScript Uses Hashing
How JavaScript Uses Hashing Hashing Hashing has to do with taking a certain value (for example your password), applying some kind of mathematical operation to it (called a hashing algorithm or a hashing function) and getting the resulting changed value (known as a hash or hash value or digest message). So one can say that hashing simply means using some function or algorithm to map object data to some representative integer value. This so-called hash code (or simply hash) can then be used as a way to narrow down our search when looking for the item in the map. Generally, these hash codes are used to generate an index/key, at which the value is stored. Hashing is designed to solve the problem of needing to efficiently find or store an item in a collection. So one benefit of using hashing and in turn the key-value relationship hashing creates, is to store passwords in databases securely. As it would be very insecure to store all passwords as plain t