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Re:Security Update by bredren on Friday May 17, 2019 @12:52AM (#19936409)
I would be impressed if SO's user password table is in bcrypt.
Re:Security Update by dhritzkiv on Friday May 17, 2019 @01:26AM (#19936576)
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.

Re:Security Update by bredren on Friday May 17, 2019 @02:03AM (#19936706)
From what I understand, many systems do not choose to implement strong hashing algos.
Re:Security Update by cyphar on Friday May 17, 2019 @02:27AM (#19936807)
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.
Re:Security Update by gpvos on Friday May 17, 2019 @02:35AM (#19936845)
I would be disappointed if such a high-profile and technically savvy site would be using anything less.