Bcrypt turns 25 this year, and Niels Provos, one of its coinventors, says that looking back, the algorithm has always had good energy, thanks to its open source availability and the technical ...

The source code led to an astounding discovery: included in the same database of formidable bcrypt hashes was a subset of 15.26 million passwords obscured using MD5, a hashing algorithm that was ...

A high impact vulnerability has been discovered in a popular Java cryptography library which could allow attackers to more easily brute force Bcrypt hashed passwords. CVE-2020-28052 is an ...

Bcrypt is a strong and slow password-hashing algorithm that was designed to be difficult and time-consuming for a "cracker" to reverse. (Hashing is one-way encryption for items that are not meant ...

The Bcrypt algorithm was used to generate the cache key where we hash a combined string of userId + username + password. During specific conditions, ...