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- Subject: Re: Storing passwords
- From: Miles Bader <miles@...>
- Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 16:37:17 +0900
steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> writes:
>> No, don't use a bare hash for storing passwords. Use the standard
>> crypt() function, or if you want to be even safer use bcrypt or
>> scrypt.
>
> If you're already using luaposix, then it has the standard crypt()
> available.
... and if you're on a non-ancient version of linux (well, anything
using glibc), the standard crypt function supports sha-256 and sha-512
as well...
-miles
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