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Hello, I am trying to insert a registration form with password using `password_hash()` but I am not sure what is wrong with whatever i am doing because the password doesn't get inserted into the database although all the other values do and no errors. database : password | varchar(255) php: …

Hello. I am beginning the process of implementing password encryption for User's on my future site (The site is not live or available yet). I have been reading up on hashing passwords and storing them in the database. **My question are as follows**: * I believe it has said that …

Having issues creating table using chain hashing (linked nodes). The program compiles, but is crashing during execution. I admit I don't really know what I'm doing since I havent really used inked lists in forever. A lot of this code I do not expect to work right away, such as …

Hi All, I'm in the middle of building a new login/registration class and was going to apply a hashing function to the pw and an activation token, when I came across the hash_hmac function. I've tried finding out more about it, but info is pretty scarce. Could anybody shine some …

Hi, I'm currently looking at password hashing and from what I've read so far, it seems pretty pointless. I read this [URL="http://phpsec.org/articles/2005/password-hashing.html"]article[/URL] which recommends using MD5 or SHA-1, however I Googled for decrypters and found them witin the first 3 results on Google. I don't quite understand the purpose of …