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by polyfractal 5474 days ago
It is amazing that a "senior" guy would resist something as simple as hashing a password.

That said, salting a simple hash is not nearly as effective as people think. Given the computing power of modern GPUs, you should use bcrypt:

http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/

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bcrypt it is...