Anatomy of an ASP.NET Identity PasswordHash 🔐

Have you ever looked at a user record in an ASP.NET Identity’s users table and wondered just what is being saved on the PasswordHash column❓

It looks like this (it’s in base64) :

AQAAAAEAACcQAAAAEJSPbbFM1aeXB8fGRV7RRamLpjzktAF7FjwDWtFx35eol4AxN6vm4zWR9EApc7WPsQ

Apart from maybe satisfying your curiosity, what could you benefit from knowing exactly what’s on that seemingly random sequence of characters❓

Well, you could confidently update from different versions of ASP.NET Identity. 🌀

Also, if you ever get tired of ASP.NET Identity for whatever reason, you could move your user accounts to whatever alternative you found that might be better. ✅

Or, you just want to have a simple users’ table and not have to deal with all of what you need to know to make ASP.NET Identity work. 👥

All of this while still being able to move your user accounts to ASP.NET Identity some day if you choose to do so. ♻️

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