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mparlane on Sept 12, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: The new Secure Password Hashing API in PHP 5.5

If this was NOT a joke...

No, do not md5 as you will lose hash type info.

edit: To be clear I am assuming it IS a joke. I hope.. oh god I hope.

Dylan16807 on Sept 13, 2012 [–]

Why would you even worry about it not being a joke? Even if by some quirk of fate they were serious, the code would immediately fail and put no data at risk.

mparlane on Sept 13, 2012 | [–]

My hopes weren't with the code, but with the fact that it is explained in the article.

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