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Insecure Password Hashing #97

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Danlock opened this issue Jul 10, 2017 · 0 comments

Danlock commented Jul 10, 2017

I noticed that you are storing your passwords in the database unsalted using just an MD5 hash.
Here is why that's a bad idea.
https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/52461/how-weak-is-md5-as-a-password-hashing-function
https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/19906/is-md5-considered-insecure

Alternatives like argon2 or bcrypt are much safer.

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