Like so many digital workhorses, though, there are now more robust and secure alternatives to bcrypt, including the hashing algorithms known as scrypt and Argon2. Provos himself says that the ...

Of all, the most significant change in PHP 7.2 is, by far, the support for Argon2, a password hashing algorithm [1, 2, 3] developed in the early 2010s and which won the Password Hashing ...

Generating a bcrypt hash might require a considerable amount of time but this deliberate delay serves as a crucial barrier against hacking attempts. Unlike MD5, and SHA-256 hashing algorithms ...

A severe authentication bypass vulnerability has been reported in Bouncy Castle, a popular open-source cryptography library ... implements the Bcrypt password hashing algorithm.

The core parameter of a hashing scheme is the employed hash function. This is where terms like MD5, SHA1, SHA256, SHA512, PBKDF2, BCRYPT ... attacker to reverse the algorithm by requiring a ...

Now, a group of cryptographers is sponsoring a competition to come up with a new password hash algorithm to ... just learned that Twitter uses bcrypt — a nice algorithm, but designed 11 years ...

The source code led to an astounding discovery: included in the same database of formidable bcrypt hashes was a subset of 15.26 million passwords obscured using MD5, a hashing algorithm that was ...