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Bombshell discovery: When it comes to passwords, the smarter students have it figured

d3rrial

Re: Pass the salt...

Hello JV.

SHA-1 is for all intents and purposes a broken algorithm and should be phased out of use. It's better to use password stretching algorithms like bcrypt with appropriate settings for user authentication instead.

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