# Password Security Hardening and Change Password using UI

## 1. Password Security Hardening

Changed encryption algorithm to pbkdf2 with the following parameters:

`Digest: sha512`

`Iterations: 600 000`

## 2. User passwords upgrade path

Following Guardian instance upgrade, at the first login existing users are prompted to change the password which would be encrypted using the new method.

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## 3. Change user password

Users can change passwords using the new option in their profile page.

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