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Re:My First 10 Minutes on a Server by brokenwren on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @03:17PM (#11911382)
BCrypt works fine, but I wouldn't say it is "2016-era security practices". It was written in 1999 and hasn't had as much scrutiny as SHA or Blowfish (although it is based on Blowfish).

Regardless, using a salted, multi-pass algorithm will keep everything nicely secured using nearly any hashing algorithm.

Remember the goal is not to crack one user's password using a brute force lookup table, it is to crack everyone's password.

Re:My First 10 Minutes on a Server by hyperpape on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @10:32PM (#11913556)
BCrypt is apparently just fine in 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11120528.
Re:My First 10 Minutes on a Server by wglb on Thursday June 16, 2016 @09:31AM (#11915920)
It is in fact a 2016-era good security practice.

And it is designed to prevent what your last sentence says.