Modern applications needs to consider informatic security as important key through development and infraestructure implemented in the project. So, I consider a good practice are implement basic and strong encryption methods in every project to protect and hardening our platform and even more when we want to deploy a public API or corporative services.
This article is focused on AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) a commonly and easy to use algorithm. A good introduction https://youtu.be/NHuibtoL_qk.
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