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by jfroma 3654 days ago
Disclaimer: I work for Auth0.

I couldn't agree more with this comment.

Storing username and passwords is really hard. Using a secure hashing alg is trivial compared to other time consuming problems like handling brute force attacks or other kind of anomalies like a distributed attack trying to use a db of leaked email and passwords from other services.