Whilst reviewing my penetration testing I have noticed that both the
md5 and sha1 hashing algorithms are now considered less secure than
previously thought. Migration to sha256 is encouraged:

http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Cryptography#Algorithm_Selection

Then I found the comment below from:

http://uk3.php.net/manual/en/function.md5.php

http://md5.rednoize.com offers a service to reverse engineer md5
hashes. Very useful if you got a md5 hash and need the plain text
string of this md5 hash. The website has currently over 47 million
hashes stored. It also has support for SHA-1 hashes.

Consequently I shall be updating my authentication class.


Andy

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