The case against password hashers
The case against password hashers
Posted Feb 25, 2017 1:37 UTC (Sat) by anarcat (subscriber, #66354)Parent article: The case against password hashers
note that since this article was written (which is 2 days ago), a collision was found in SHA-1. we are therefore at the "Uncork the champagne step. I *believe* MD5 is at the "How adorable" step. Notice also that, in that table, a lot of algorithms didn't make it pass the 12-year mark, but SHA-1 showed an impressive track record at withstanding collisions for a whopping 22 years.