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Actually, here on HN, "Use bcrypt" has been the war-cry whenever password storage is discussed for quite some time - mostly linking to Coda Hale's blog post from 2010: http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/

(the discussions usually then fragment into the "No, use scrypt instead! GPUs! HashCat! ASICs! Memory-hard vs iterations-hard!" thread, and the "but what if I use an application salt with my MD5 hashes? Or invent my own complification techniques (and keep using MD5)?")



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