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?

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