I’m using SHA1 to encrypt a password. In my original code I checked if the password fields were empty with: if (empty($newpassword) and (empty($newpassword2))) { } Since I now use SHA1 and it automatically generates da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709 when field is left blank, how do I re-write my code? Translate da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709 back to string? Or something else? Please help. Answer What you
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How insecure is a salted SHA1 compared to a salted SHA512
SHA1 is completely insecure and should be replaced. This question is 8+ years old and times have changed: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/02/at-deaths-door-for-years-widely-used-sha1-function-is-now-dead/ For passwords: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBKDF2 For data: SHA3 SHA512 is more complex than SHA1, but how much security am I losing by hashing a salted password with SHA1 compared to hashing it with 512? in terms of the time it would take for
SHA1 vs md5 vs SHA256: which to use for a PHP login?
I’m making a php login, and I’m trying to decide whether to use SHA1 or Md5, or SHA256 which I read about in another stackoverflow article. Are any of them more secure than others? For SHA1/256, do I …