This is bang on. PHP devs need to stop rolling their own hashing methods. The compatibility library to use for PHP <5.5 is Antony Ferrara's password_compat: ht

This is bang on. PHP devs need to stop rolling their own hashing methods. The compatibility library to use for PHP <5.5 is Antony Ferrara's password_compat: https://github.com/ircmaxell/password_compat https://github.com/ircmaxell/password_compat.