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nwienert06/26/20252 repliesview on HN

What are you talking about?

I was 14 learning PHP in 2003 and every tutorial insisted you salt and use a more secure hashing algorithm.

It’s weird to see people say things so boldly that are so wrong.


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rafram06/26/2025

That's not how I remember it. There was a lot of

  if (md5($_POST['password'])) == password_col) // success!
floating around in the PHP example code universe.
koakuma-chan06/26/2025

I unironically smell a conspiracy here.