I have been looking around the internet alot about how to make a login page for a website, and came across the md5 function for password encryption, and also salts for passwords. I looked up md5 and found quite a few pages that said md5 isn't secure, and hackers could crack it. What are the other encryption functions in php?
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Have a look at [this question](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4795385/how-do-you-use-bcrypt-for-hashing-passwords-in-php) for information on bcrypt. – Daniel Miladinov Nov 29 '12 at 00:44
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Hackers can crack "anything". Used properly, MD5 is more than you (probably) need. – Madbreaks Nov 29 '12 at 00:44
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@Madbreaks Sheesh. What kind of advice is that? No, hackers cannot crack "\"anything\"". – John Kugelman Nov 29 '12 at 00:45
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1First of all, MD5 is *NOT* an encryption algorithm. It's a hash algorithm. Secondly, A pizza isn't a grilled cheese sandwich, and a grilled cheese sandwich isn't a pizza even though both contain copious amounts of cheese; similarly, password hashing and password encryption are two very different things. – Nik Bougalis Nov 29 '12 at 00:54
