I'm pretty sure this article[1] is posted daily on HN. General purpose hashing functions are all fast (which, for a password storage system, is synonymous with

I'm pretty sure this article[1] is posted daily on HN. General purpose hashing functions are all fast (which, for a password storage system, is synonymous with bad). [1] http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/ http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/