feat: Add utility for checking outdated password hashes during login flow #471
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If hash settings are changed, such as increasing the scrypt cost parameter, stored hash values are not updated until the user changes their password and a new hash is calculated with the new configuration and plaintext password.
Checking the parameters of the hashed password against the current configuration on successful login allows proactively replacing the stored hash of the user's existing plaintext password.
This would also assist in migrating hashes to a different algorithm, if
verifyPassword()was made algorithm-aware. Existing hashes would be checked against the algorithm that created them, buthashPassword()andpasswordNeedsReHash()would only need to use the current configuration values.