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/que

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-php-implementations-of-scrypt 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.