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I would be impressed if SO's user password table is in bcrypt.


What makes you say that? bcrypt's been the defacto best practice for user password "storage" for probably 10 years now. MD5's been known to be inadequate for much longer.

Even if they had a legacy implementation in MD5, gradually migrating from storing MD5 hashes to storing bcrypt hashes is trivial to do.


From what I understand, many systems do not choose to implement strong hashing algos.


Even PHP's hash_function uses scrypt. Yes, some people explicitly decide to hash everything with sha1 but nothing you or I do will ever be able to stop them.


I would be disappointed if such a high-profile and technically savvy site would be using anything less.




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