Password hashing compatible with Java and PHP
java, passwords, php
Solution
If you want do the easy thing, you can use sha-N with salt. (N being 1, 256 or 512)
Jeff Atwood did a nice blog post on that recently, saying that `bcrypt` and `PBKDF2` are the best options.
In PHP you can use `bcrypt` (and in Java too)
Related topics:
- How do you use bcrypt for hashing passwords in PHP?
Resouces:
- Coding Horror - Speed Hashing
- Security Stack exchange - Do any security experts recommend bcrypt for password storage?
Problem
Is there a secure password hashing library (e.g. phpass) or hashing method that I can easily use in both PHP and Java?