diff --git a/backend/Cargo.lock b/backend/Cargo.lock
index a09a176..5cffb71 100644
--- a/backend/Cargo.lock
+++ b/backend/Cargo.lock
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "actix-service",
  "actix-utils",
  "ahash",
- "base64",
+ "base64 0.22.1",
  "bitflags",
  "brotli",
  "bytes",
@@ -281,6 +281,12 @@ version = "0.2.21"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "683d7910e743518b0e34f1186f92494becacb047c7b6bf616c96772180fef923"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "anyhow"
+version = "1.0.95"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "34ac096ce696dc2fcabef30516bb13c0a68a11d30131d3df6f04711467681b04"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "autocfg"
 version = "1.4.0"
@@ -302,12 +308,30 @@ dependencies = [
  "windows-targets",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "base64"
+version = "0.13.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "9e1b586273c5702936fe7b7d6896644d8be71e6314cfe09d3167c95f712589e8"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "base64"
 version = "0.22.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "72b3254f16251a8381aa12e40e3c4d2f0199f8c6508fbecb9d91f575e0fbb8c6"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "bcrypt"
+version = "0.13.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "a7e7c93a3fb23b2fdde989b2c9ec4dd153063ec81f408507f84c090cd91c6641"
+dependencies = [
+ "base64 0.13.1",
+ "blowfish",
+ "getrandom",
+ "zeroize",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "bitflags"
 version = "2.6.0"
@@ -323,6 +347,16 @@ dependencies = [
  "generic-array",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "blowfish"
+version = "0.9.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "e412e2cd0f2b2d93e02543ceae7917b3c70331573df19ee046bcbc35e45e87d7"
+dependencies = [
+ "byteorder",
+ "cipher",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "brotli"
 version = "6.0.0"
@@ -382,6 +416,16 @@ version = "1.0.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "baf1de4339761588bc0619e3cbc0120ee582ebb74b53b4efbf79117bd2da40fd"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "cipher"
+version = "0.4.4"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "773f3b9af64447d2ce9850330c473515014aa235e6a783b02db81ff39e4a3dad"
+dependencies = [
+ "crypto-common",
+ "inout",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "convert_case"
 version = "0.4.0"
@@ -542,6 +586,8 @@ dependencies = [
  "actix-cors",
  "actix-files",
  "actix-web",
+ "anyhow",
+ "bcrypt",
  "env_logger",
  "futures",
  "log",
@@ -907,6 +953,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "hashbrown 0.15.2",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "inout"
+version = "0.1.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "a0c10553d664a4d0bcff9f4215d0aac67a639cc68ef660840afe309b807bc9f5"
+dependencies = [
+ "generic-array",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "is-terminal"
 version = "0.4.13"
@@ -1723,6 +1778,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "synstructure",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "zeroize"
+version = "1.8.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "ced3678a2879b30306d323f4542626697a464a97c0a07c9aebf7ebca65cd4dde"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "zerovec"
 version = "0.10.4"
diff --git a/backend/Cargo.toml b/backend/Cargo.toml
index fead35d..4796d48 100644
--- a/backend/Cargo.toml
+++ b/backend/Cargo.toml
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ serde_json = "1.0"
 uuid = { version = "1.0", features = ["v4"] }
 actix-files = "0.6"
 actix-cors = "0.6"
-env_logger = "0.10" # Check for the latest version
+env_logger = "0.10"
 log = "0.4"
-futures = "0.3"
\ No newline at end of file
+futures = "0.3"
+bcrypt = "0.13"
+anyhow = "1.0"
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/backend/form_data.db b/backend/form_data.db
index 08cd32a..a6446aa 100644
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