diff --git a/containers/clearview/src/clearview_app/auth/security.py b/containers/clearview/src/clearview_app/auth/security.py
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+"""Password hashing, password-policy validation, and session-id generation."""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import uuid
+
+from argon2 import PasswordHasher
+from argon2.exceptions import InvalidHashError, VerificationError, VerifyMismatchError
+
+
+class PasswordPolicyError(ValueError):
+    """Raised when a candidate password does not meet the policy."""
+
+
+_hasher = PasswordHasher()
+
+MIN_LENGTH = 12
+
+
+def validate_password(pw: str) -> None:
+    """Enforce: length >= 12, at least one letter and one digit."""
+    if len(pw) < MIN_LENGTH:
+        raise PasswordPolicyError(f"Password must be at least {MIN_LENGTH} characters.")
+    if not any(c.isalpha() for c in pw):
+        raise PasswordPolicyError("Password must contain at least one letter.")
+    if not any(c.isdigit() for c in pw):
+        raise PasswordPolicyError("Password must contain at least one digit.")
+
+
+def hash_password(pw: str) -> str:
+    return _hasher.hash(pw)
+
+
+def verify_password(pw: str, encoded: str) -> bool:
+    try:
+        return _hasher.verify(encoded, pw)
+    except (VerifyMismatchError, InvalidHashError, VerificationError):
+        return False
+    except Exception:
+        return False
+
+
+def new_session_id() -> str:
+    """Opaque 128-bit session identifier rendered as 32 hex chars."""
+    return uuid.uuid4().hex
diff --git a/containers/clearview/tests/test_security.py b/containers/clearview/tests/test_security.py
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+import pytest
+
+from clearview_app.auth.security import (
+    PasswordPolicyError,
+    hash_password,
+    new_session_id,
+    validate_password,
+    verify_password,
+)
+
+
+def test_hash_and_verify_roundtrip():
+    h = hash_password("CorrectHorse42")
+    assert verify_password("CorrectHorse42", h) is True
+    assert verify_password("wrong", h) is False
+
+
+def test_verify_returns_false_on_garbage_hash():
+    assert verify_password("anything", "not-a-real-hash") is False
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("pw", ["short1A", "alllowercase", "ALLUPPERCASE", "12345678901234"])
+def test_policy_rejects(pw):
+    with pytest.raises(PasswordPolicyError):
+        validate_password(pw)
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("pw", ["CorrectHorse42", "abcdefghij12"])
+def test_policy_accepts(pw):
+    validate_password(pw)
+
+
+def test_new_session_id_unique_and_hex():
+    a = new_session_id()
+    b = new_session_id()
+    assert a != b
+    assert len(a) == 32 and all(c in "0123456789abcdef" for c in a)