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Saturday, 09 June 2012 11:57
Author Of Password Hashing Software md5crypt Says Stop Using It
After the breaches and issues with passwords we saw last week we were not surprised to see the creator of a popular password hashing application md5crypt() come out and recommend against using this software. Now if you have followed security then you are probably already aware that the MD5 encryption scheme was broken quite a while ago (2004-2005) and is no longer recommended as an encryption algorithm. So why in 2012 are we only getting a recommendation to stop using md5crypt() now?
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