Security Corner: Adventures in Hashing

Last month, the PHP community had the opportunity to come together for the excellent php[world] conference in Washington, D.C. As part of the event, we held a hackathon to work through some of the challenges posed by Cryptopals. Some of the cryptographic primitives we discussed were hashes, and it’s useful to take a more in-depth look at what they are and how to use them in PHP.