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Use proper hashing for passwords (Thomas) #87

Open Zenexer opened 8 years ago

Zenexer commented 8 years ago

@F-Torakuma, @AlecCItz is currently working on improving password security in issue #85. It's a big task but also very important, so I'd appreciate if you could follow the same process in parallel. As we get further along we'll merge your tasks into one so you can work on the code together, but for now I'd like you each to research independently and come up with a solution that we can implement quickly, easily, and securely.

Here's the original checklist:

dewskii commented 8 years ago

@fredepd subscribe to this

dewskii commented 8 years ago

@AlecCItz @F-Torakuma Reference http://viralpatel.net/blogs/java-md5-hashing-salting-password/ Note: current link uses MD5, instead use SHA-1 or SHA-256(probably not)