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Teach the controversy! Even if there isn't one.

> But if someone asked, and they didn't have a very specialized application, I'd tell them that switching to scrypt from bcrypt, or even PBKDF2, would be a waste of money.

Argon2/scrypt/bcrypt/PBKDF2 are fine. I think PBKDF2 is the worst choice, but is still acceptable.

The real problem is the prevalence of md5($password) e.g. in software like Piwik.




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