Bug #65263 [NEW]: Password Hasing best practices to be updated on faq.passwords.php

From: mark at zedwood dot com Operating system: PHP version: 5.5.0 Package: Documentation problem Bug Type: Bug Bug description:Password Hasing best practices to be updated on faq.passwords.php Description: ------------ When I googled: "php password" the first result I got was: http://php.net/manual/en/faq.passwords.php This page looked outdated and wholly unaware of php 5.5's blowfish password_hash() family of functions http://php.net/manual/en/book.password.php Someone should update http://php.net/manual/en/faq.passwords.php to reflect to new 'best practices' for php password hashing. -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=65263&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=65263&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=65263&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=65263&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=65263&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=65263&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=65263&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=65263&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=65263&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=65263&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=65263&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=65263&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=65263&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=65263&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=65263&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=65263&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=65263&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=65263&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=65263&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=65263&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=65263&r=mysqlcfg