Security Basics
Re: Password hashing Jun 15 2012 10:24AM
andres elliku (andreselliku gmail com)
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 12:54 PM, andres elliku <andreselliku (at) gmail (dot) com [email concealed]> wrote:
>
> Hello everybody!
>
> I've been trying to find out more about the current status of the
> RIPEMD160 cryptographic hash function, but a lot of the information seems to
> be quite old.
>
> The original RIPEMD function seems to have questionable security, but is
> RIPEMD160 still a reasonably safe option for password hashing?
>
> Any thoughts are greatly appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
> Andres

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