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Comment #4081337
Yeah, it would be weaker against a collision attack. But that shouldn't be a concern as the purpose of the password hashing function is to protect against a preimage attack: findin…
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Comment #4080603
Couldn't you just move from, say, using MD5(password) to bcrypt(MD5(password))? So when it becomes apparent that the old hash is no more secure, start using the combination of the …
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