Richard Clark wrote:
> As a general plea to everyone on-list, and not specifically to you,
> please don't invent your own crypto systems for use in production.
[ .. ]
> Take the security of your users seriously. Do it properly. It doesn't
> take long to implement a proper password function in comparison to a
> cheap sha1(), and the security difference is significant.

http://www.openwall.com/phpass/ is a pretty solid library for password
hashing (it does hashing as you describe plus key strengthening and
embeds the hash and algorithm into the result for portability. Used by
Drupal now.

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