Add a special password hasher just for unit tests.

 






 

 


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  Created Sept. 16, 2025 and updated 

 




















 

  

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When running unit tests, we forced password hashing to use

SHA1PasswordHasher because the standard password hashers by design

take time to execute. Unfortunately, the SHA1 hasher is deprecated and

will be removed in Django 5.1. Because we don't actually care anything

about password security when running unit tests, this change adds a

special hasher just for the test suite that uses base64, which is even

faster than SHA1.

 








  


 
 

  
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      Add a special password hasher just for unit tests.
      
When running unit tests, we forced password hashing to use
`SHA1PasswordHasher` because the standard password hashers by design
take time to execute. Unfortunately, the SHA1 hasher is deprecated and
will be removed in Django 5.1. Because we don't actually care anything
about password security when running unit tests, this change adds a
special hasher just for the test suite that uses base64, which is even
faster than SHA1.

Testing Done:
Ran unit tests.

     


    		
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