The false dichotomy I was referring to isn't the 'introduce bcrypt' vs 'introduce a new model' thing, those things clearly aren't mutually exclusive, it's that you inferred that me pushing for one means that I'm totally against the other in the present day. In any case I have no desire to join a thread about fallacious reasoning and semantics.

> Regardless of whether any one of us individually argues for such a world, the current world is where our professional duties must be discharged.

And there are plenty of people pushing for bcrypt/scrypt and such every time this happens. My duty in this case is to point out that this will never end all the time we allow the possibility of recurrence.

There's a real danger in going too far and making bcrypt/scrypt solutions doctrine. There are still plenty of people out there who continue to tout hashing with SHA-1 and salts of a certain construct, because at some point they understood why it was important, continue to have the security conscience, but are not up to date with the new realities.

This is why solutions at the architectural level, and not in the application or framework are so so important. Why oh why oh why, don't we have a column type in SQL databases specifically for storing passwords?