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jere on June 6, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: 6.5 Million LinkedIn Password Hashes Leaked

The reason people are going to use bcrypt is that there are more likely going to be bcrypt implementations in their given language: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10149554/are-there-any-ph...

I just had to make this choice a few days ago and bcrypt seemed like the best option with working PHP implementations. And I sure as hell am not going to try to roll my own.

jakejake on June 6, 2012 [–]

The responses to that stack overflow question makes me want to punch somebody in the face!

The #1 google response for info about Scrypt for php now points to an article arguing about the semantics of the question with no answer. Classic!

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