password security in PHP

Question

What method would you call safest and most secure? I took these snippets off php.net. I\'m just wondering because people posted their own and I just couldn\'t catch on to u

Answer 1

there is no standard good answer for this. What I do know is that security and speed has to be balanced. You could AES encrypt every information but would that be feasible? To answer your question MD5 (which is one way encrypt) plus SALT (a really random string) is considered a good standard of security. It just happens to be fastest and secure enough.

If you try to implement your own encryption and what not it will be like that magic trick where you entangle the wire too many times and yet it comes undone with wrist slap. So go for SALT+MD5 unless you want to theorize and thesis-fy the idea.