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> Examples of popular cryptographic hash algorithms: SHA, BCrypt, MD5. It's worth noting that MD5 is no longer considered a cryptographically secure hash funct
by vlmutolo 3y ago
> Examples of popular cryptographic hash algorithms: SHA, BCrypt, MD5.
It's worth noting that MD5 is no longer considered a cryptographically secure hash function.
- trevithick 3y agoFrom later in the article: > MD5 is considered a weak hashing algorithm these days; we use BCrypt, which is stronger.
- dspillett 3y agoSHA1 too for that matter. Other members of the SHA family are still fine to use.
- Genbox 3y agoAlso, technically bcrypt is not a general hash algorithm, but rather a password-hash construction. Where SHA1 and MD5 are primitives that can be used in arbitrary crypt constructions, bcrypt is already a construction specialized for passwords. You wouldn't (or at least shouldn't) hash a file with bcrypt.