BCRYPT
Hash passwords using bcrypt with configurable cost factor and verify hashes
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About BCRYPT
BCRYPT Hashing: The Gold Standard for Password Security
When it comes to storing passwords securely, BCRYPT has been the industry recommendation for over two decades and for good reason. Unlike fast hashing algorithms like MD5 or SHA-256 (which can compute billions of hashes per second on modern hardware), BCRYPT is intentionally slow. It incorporates a configurable work factor (cost) that determines how computationally expensive each hash is to produce. This deliberate slowness makes brute-force attacks against BCRYPT-hashed passwords astronomically more expensive than attacking faster hashes. Our BCRYPT tool lets you generate BCRYPT hashes and verify passwords against existing hashes, right in your browser.
How BCRYPT Works Under the Hood
BCRYPT is based on the Blowfish cipher, adapted specifically for password hashing. When you hash a password with BCRYPT, three things happen. First, a random salt (128 bits of random data) is generated to ensure that identical passwords produce different hashes. Second, the password and salt are processed through the Blowfish key schedule an exponential number of times determined by the cost factor meaning a cost of 10 means 1024 iterations, a cost of 12 means 4096 iterations. Third, the result is encoded into a standardized string format that includes the algorithm identifier, cost factor, salt, and hash all in one portable string.
Understanding the Cost Factor
The cost factor (also called work factor or rounds) is what makes BCRYPT future-proof. As computers get faster, you increase the cost factor. A cost of 10 was standard in 2010. By 2020, most security experts recommended 12. In 2026, a cost of 12-14 is common for web applications. Each increment doubles the computation time. At cost 10, hashing takes roughly 100 milliseconds. At cost 12, about 400 milliseconds. At cost 14, about 1.6 seconds. Our tool lets you select your desired cost factor and see how it affects both the generated hash and the time required to compute it.
Why Not MD5 or SHA-256 for Passwords?
MD5 can compute over 10 billion hashes per second on a modern GPU. SHA-256 is only slightly slower. This speed is a feature for file integrity checks but a catastrophic weakness for password storage. An attacker with a stolen database of MD5-hashed passwords can try billions of password guesses per second, cracking most common passwords in minutes. BCRYPT at cost 12 limits an attacker to roughly 2500 hashes per second on the same hardware, a reduction factor of four million. That is the difference between cracking a password in hours versus cracking it in centuries. This is why every major security framework recommends BCRYPT or its successors Argon2 and scrypt for password storage.
Generating BCRYPT Hashes
Enter your password into our BCRYPT tool, select a cost factor, and the tool generates a complete BCRYPT hash string. This string contains everything needed to verify the password later including the algorithm version, the cost factor, the random salt, and the hash itself. You can store this string in a database and later verify passwords against it without ever needing to store or know the original salt separately. The self-contained nature of BCRYPT hash strings is one of the format most practical design decisions.
Verifying Passwords Against BCRYPT Hashes
Our tool also supports BCRYPT verification. Paste a BCRYPT hash string and enter a password, and the tool tells you whether they match. This is useful for testing when you are building an authentication system and you want to verify that your hashing implementation produces hashes that your verification logic can correctly validate. It is also useful for debugging login failures since if a user cannot log in, you can verify whether their password actually matches the stored hash or whether there is a different issue at play.
BCRYPT in Modern Web Frameworks
Every major web framework has built-in BCRYPT support. Laravel uses BCRYPT by default in its Hash facade. Django includes BCryptSHA256Hasher. Ruby on Rails has the bcrypt gem. Node.js has the bcrypt and bcryptjs packages. Spring Security in Java uses BCryptPasswordEncoder. If you are building a web application in any of these frameworks, you are likely already using BCRYPT. Our tool helps you understand, test, and verify the hashes your application produces.
Entirely Client-Side Processing
This is a security tool, so privacy is paramount. The BCRYPT hashing and verification runs entirely in your browser. Your passwords are never transmitted to any server. No network requests are made during the hashing process. The cryptographic operations execute locally using JavaScript implementations of the Blowfish-based BCRYPT algorithm. This means you can safely test with real passwords or production hash strings without any risk of exposure. Close the browser tab and the data is gone.