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Registration: Email hash and verifying only one account per email

I’m using a registration function that hashes the email in PBKDF2 with a random and unique Salt each time. The hashes email and his salt are saved in the DB. No problem with that.
The problem is that now I want to make sure that users only create one single account per email. Obviously to verify that I need to check my DB and that’s where the problem starts. I either lose in security or in time.

Emailing Service: To or Bcc?

I’m busy coding a reusable e-mail service for my company. The e-mail service will be doing quite a few things via injection through the strategy pattern (such as handling e-mail send rate throttling, switching between Smtp and AmazonSES or Google AppEngine for e-mail clients when daily quotas are exceeded, send statistics tracking (mostly because it is neccessary in order to stay within quotas) to name a few).

How do PGP and PEM differ?

Email messages are sent in plain text which means that the messages I send to Derpina are visible to anyone who somehow gets access to them while they are in transit.

How does eMail encryption work?

I have been going over YouTube watching videos on eMail encryption and everyone seems to explain it from a different perspective. Some do it for a CompTIA exam while others just provide a primer.
Here is what I understood: