bcrypt
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Description: Bcrypt is a password hashing function designed by Niels Provos and David Mazières. It's based on the Blowfish cipher and was first presented at USENIX in 1999. Bcrypt is specifically designed to be slow, which is a crucial security feature. This slowness makes it computationally expensive for attackers to perform brute-force or dictionary attacks to crack passwords. It achieves this through the use of a variable iteration count that can be increased over time to adapt to increases in computing power. Additionally, bcrypt incorporates a "salt"—a randomly generated value added to each password before hashing—to protect against rainbow table attacks. The salt ensures that the same password will produce different hashes each time it's processed. Bcrypt is widely used and implemented across many programming languages and platforms.
Website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bcrypt
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The comment recommends bcrypt to hash the passwords when the user switches to MySQL.
Found in /r/webdev/💬 31 comments
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Mentioned as a secure option for password hashing in PHP.
Found in /r/webdev/💬 72 comments
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Bcrypt is mentioned as a suitable hashing algorithm for passwords, although Argon2 is preferred.
Found in /r/webdev/Feb 6, 2025
n0rdy - When Postgres index meets Bcrypt
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bcrypt is mentioned as a password hashing function, which is a relevant and widely used technology in the context of database security. The discussion revolves around its performance characteristics when used with Postgres indexes.
Found in /r/PostgreSQL/Jan 31, 2025
Authentication ? How to Approach ?
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This library is mentioned as a common and useful tool for password hashing, a crucial part of authentication.
Found in /r/webdev/Dec 24, 2024
Stupid question: How should I handle "auth" for my site with one user (me)
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Bcrypt is recommended for password hashing in Node.js applications.
Found in /r/webdev/Mar 28, 2018
As a full stack web developer, I've recently taken a detour into learning about web security and penetration testing. I decided to take what I've learned over the past few months and put together a list of "Minimum Viable Security" recommendations for anyone building web apps.
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bcrypt is recommended for password hashing due to its built-in cost factor and reduced error proneness.
Found in /r/webdev/Jun 20, 2013
PHP 5.5 released
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The new password_hash function with bcrypt is praised for its improved security.
Found in /r/PHP/Apr 27, 2013
Reminder: use bcrypt for your users' passwords!
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⬆︎ 124 upvotes
bcrypt is recommended for password hashing to improve security.
Found in /r/PHP/Sep 12, 2012
The new Secure Password Hashing API in PHP 5.5
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⬆︎ 103 upvotes
bcrypt is mentioned as a secure hashing algorithm.
Found in /r/PHP/Subscribe to our newsletter!
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