I am a Developer Advocate for Security in Mobile Apps and APIs at approov.io.
Another passion is the Elixir programming language that was designed to be concurrent, distributed and fault tolerant.
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Developer Advocate for Mobile and API Security at approov.io
No need to contact me, they just need to provide the email and everything will work as usual.
When they provide the email it is hashed as if it was to store in the database and then you try to find that hash in the database and on success you send an password recovery email.
The only limitation here is the user cannot recover the password by using only the username, it must provide always the email.
There are many needs to contact you, from legal reasons to subscriptions, payments, notifications even data breaches alerts. If you have a customer you need to have its contact details.
Its common sense and most of the time a legal obligation.
I am a Developer Advocate for Security in Mobile Apps and APIs at approov.io.
Another passion is the Elixir programming language that was designed to be concurrent, distributed and fault tolerant.
Location
Scotland
Education
Self teached Developer
Work
Developer Advocate for Mobile and API Security at approov.io
If you have legal obligations to keep or really need it for contact purposes then yes you would need to keep it in plain text.
Bu if you only need it for login purposes or to send notifications while the user is logged in then you can store the emails as an hash in the database.
If you can login into my email account then you can, otherwise you can't.
When I said that would work as usual I am referring to the normal process of recovering a password where an email is sent to your email account with a unique link that normally also as a short expiration time.
So how do you propose to reset your password? or how would they contact you?
No need to contact me, they just need to provide the email and everything will work as usual.
When they provide the email it is hashed as if it was to store in the database and then you try to find that hash in the database and on success you send an password recovery email.
The only limitation here is the user cannot recover the password by using only the username, it must provide always the email.
There are many needs to contact you, from legal reasons to subscriptions, payments, notifications even data breaches alerts. If you have a customer you need to have its contact details.
Its common sense and most of the time a legal obligation.
So I can login into your account anytime because I know your email?
@BG Adrian
If you have legal obligations to keep or really need it for contact purposes then yes you would need to keep it in plain text.
Bu if you only need it for login purposes or to send notifications while the user is logged in then you can store the emails as an hash in the database.
@rhymes
If you can login into my email account then you can, otherwise you can't.
When I said that would work as usual I am referring to the normal process of recovering a password where an email is sent to your email account with a unique link that normally also as a short expiration time.
Ok sorry, I misunderstood,I was thinking of passwordless logins.