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

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=65263&edit=1 ID: 65263 Comment by: narf at devilix dot net Reported by: mark at zedwood dot com Summary: Password Hashing best practices to be updated on faq.passwords.php Status: Assigned Type: Bug Package: Documentation problem PHP Version: 5.5.0 Assigned To: ircmaxell Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: It has already been updated. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-07-16 01:05:21] mark at zedwood dot com fixing typo in title ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-07-15 19:35:39] philip@php.net I believe Anthony is already working on this, so status->assigned. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-07-15 17:53:27] mark at zedwood dot com 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When I googled: "php password" the first result I got was: http://php.net/manual/en/faq.passwords.php This page looked outdated and wholly unaware of php 5.5's blowfish password_hash() family of functions http://php.net/manual/en/book.password.php Someone should update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 this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=65263&edit=1