--- title: "Validating should be quick. #coffeesoftware #RobWinch" url: https://daily.dev/posts/validating-should-be-quick-coffeesoftware-robwinch-tezjxlgw5 source_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjpnoHZsAtQ type: video:youtube source: "Coffee + Software" published: 2026-06-29T16:29:27.138Z updated: 2026-06-29T16:29:44.741Z tags: ["security", "authentication"] reading_time: 1 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Validating should be quick. #coffeesoftware #RobWinch **[Coffee \+ Software](https://daily.dev/sources/coffee-software)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Password validation involves a deliberate trade-off between security and system availability. Modern secure password storage requires computationally expensive hashing, but this creates a denial-of-service risk since attackers can flood the system with login attempts to degrade performance. The recommended balance is tuning your password hashing cost so that validating a single password takes approximately one second on production hardware. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [You are \(probably\) validating passwords wrong](https://daily.dev/posts/you-are-probably-validating-passwords-wrong-b7eniked1) · RUBYLAND · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#security](https://daily.dev/tags/security), [#authentication](https://daily.dev/tags/authentication) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/validating-should-be-quick-coffeesoftware-robwinch-tezjxlgw5)