---
title: 'Security'
description: 'haolib security utilities'
icon: 'shield-check'
---

## Security utilities

haolib provides a comprehensive set of security utilities for your applications.

### JWT

JWT is a compact, URL-safe means of representing claims to be transferred between two parties. The claims in a JWT are encoded as a JSON object that is used as the payload of the JWT, and the header and signature are base64url encoded and joined by a period (`.`).

### Password hashing

Password hashing is the process of converting a password into a hash that can be stored and verified later.
