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namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Provides an abstraction for hashing passwords.
    /// </summary>
    /// <typeparam name="TUser">The type used to represent a user.</typeparam>
    public interface IPasswordHasher<TUser> where TUser : class
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Returns a hashed representation of the supplied <paramref name="password"/> for the specified <paramref name="user"/>.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="user">The user whose password is to be hashed.</param>
        /// <param name="password">The password to hash.</param>
        /// <returns>A hashed representation of the supplied <paramref name="password"/> for the specified <paramref name="user"/>.</returns>
        string HashPassword(TUser user, string password);

        /// <summary>
        /// Returns a <see cref="PasswordVerificationResult"/> indicating the result of a password hash comparison.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="user">The user whose password should be verified.</param>
        /// <param name="hashedPassword">The hash value for a user's stored password.</param>
        /// <param name="providedPassword">The password supplied for comparison.</param>
        /// <returns>A <see cref="PasswordVerificationResult"/> indicating the result of a password hash comparison.</returns>
        /// <remarks>Implementations of this method should be time consistent.</remarks>
        PasswordVerificationResult VerifyHashedPassword(TUser user, string hashedPassword, string providedPassword);
    }
}