Secure password storage

Question

I\'m developing a web service where users must login. I will store user data in an SQL database and input/output via PHP. But I don\'t want to store it openly. How do I encr

Answer 1

Hash passwords in SHA-1 (sha1 php inbuilt function) with several recursions of salting (same code in the answers above, only loop through several times). This should be sufficient protection, so even if the intruders somehow get their hands on the hashes, they shouldn't be able to crack them...