diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 4b63124..2da0866 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -443,6 +443,12 @@ version = "0.21.5"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "35636a1494ede3b646cc98f74f8e62c773a38a659ebc777a2cf26b9b74171df9"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "base64ct"
+version = "1.6.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "8c3c1a368f70d6cf7302d78f8f7093da241fb8e8807c05cc9e51a125895a6d5b"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "bitflags"
 version = "1.3.2"
@@ -1689,6 +1695,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "leptos_meta",
  "leptos_router",
  "openssl",
+ "pbkdf2",
  "serde",
  "wasm-bindgen",
 ]
@@ -1915,6 +1922,17 @@ dependencies = [
  "windows-targets",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "password-hash"
+version = "0.5.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "346f04948ba92c43e8469c1ee6736c7563d71012b17d40745260fe106aac2166"
+dependencies = [
+ "base64ct",
+ "rand_core",
+ "subtle",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "paste"
 version = "1.0.14"
@@ -1927,6 +1945,18 @@ version = "0.2.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "8835116a5c179084a830efb3adc117ab007512b535bc1a21c991d3b32a6b44dd"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "pbkdf2"
+version = "0.12.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "f8ed6a7761f76e3b9f92dfb0a60a6a6477c61024b775147ff0973a02653abaf2"
+dependencies = [
+ "digest",
+ "hmac",
+ "password-hash",
+ "sha2",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "percent-encoding"
 version = "2.3.1"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 259386f..59e9c73 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ serde = { versions = "1.0.195", features = ["derive"] }
 openssl = { version = "0.10.63", optional = true }
 actix-identity = { version = "0.7.0", optional = true }
 actix-session = { version = "0.9.0", features = ["redis-rs-session"], optional = true }
+pbkdf2 = { version = "0.12.2", features = ["simple"], optional = true }
 
 [features]
 csr = ["leptos/csr", "leptos_meta/csr", "leptos_router/csr"]
@@ -48,6 +49,7 @@ ssr = [
   "openssl",
   "actix-identity",
   "actix-session",
+  "pbkdf2",
 ]
 
 # Defines a size-optimized profile for the WASM bundle in release mode