The coinventor of “bcrypt” is reflecting on the ubiquitous function’s 25 years and channeling cybersecurity’s core themes into electronic dance music.

Bcrypt passwords are considered safe and difficult to crack due to their advanced hashing algorithm.

Several cryptographers are sponsoring a new Password Hashing Algorithm to find a password hash that’s more secure than the existing alternatives.

Learn why strong, secure paswords matter by seeing how easy it is to crack passwords with a common tool. Longer, more complex passwords are best, and you'll see why.

Some of today's passwords take significantly longer to crack, thanks to new hashing algorithms that bolster security.

Many of today’s computer passwords are stored and transmitted in a cryptographic hashed form. A strong password hash algorithm ensures that if the password hash is obtained by unauthorized ...

How do rainbow tables work? For security reasons organizations have, for several years, typically stored users’ passwords using hashes. Hashing algorithms disguise passwords and make them ...

The algorithms used to calculate these hashes are designed so that given the resulting hash it is impossible to reverse the process and get back the original password.

When used for cracking passwords, a modern high-end graphics card will absolutely chew through “classic” hashing algorithms like SHA-1 and SHA-2. When a single desktop machine can run through ...

Over a quarter of all the major content management systems (CMSs) use the old and outdated MD5 hashing scheme as the default for securing and storing user passwords.