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Introduction to JSON and PHP
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Encrypting Passwords with PHP for Storage Using the RSA PBKDF2 Standard
By Andrew Johnson (archived Oct 3, 2009)
When creating password hashes for storage, many programmers will run a password through MD5 once and call it a day, rendering those hashes very susceptible to attack if they're discovered. In this article, you'll learn how to create stronger hashes with PHP by using the RSA ...
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Generating Session IDs and Random Passwords with PHP
By Andrew Johnson (archived Jun 16, 2009)
Whether it's session ids, passwords or tokens in general, in the world of web development the ability to generate random alpha-numeric strings is a necessity. In this article I present a few simple yet effective PHP functions that can be used to generate strong alpha, numeri...