How to securely generate SSHA256 or SSHA512 hashes in PHP?

Question

I am working on a web administration module for mailservers (it\'s open source if you\'d like to take a look).

For that, I need to be able to generate hashed password th

Answer 1

Password generation function in PHP:

$hash = "{SSHA256}".base64_encode(hash('sha256', $password.$salt, true).$salt);

Necessarily "true" - the third parameter...