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		gwenhwyfaer on Sept 17, 2007 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Coding Horror: You're Probably Storing Passwords I... Is there a list of these somewhere? Which ones would you recommend?

thomasptacek on Sept 17, 2007 [–]

If you ship on Unix, use what your operating system ships with. Failing that, use bcrypt, or PHK's MD5 scheme. If you must DIY, iterate the hash function several thousand times.

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