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Disagree. The point of this article as I understood it was not to provide short advice, but to provide a comprehensive explanation of the problem and why the 3 listed solutions are good ones.

People often ask "why use bcrypt", and the response is that they should google it. If you look through the first page of google results for [why use bcrypt], though, none have a good discussion of the reasonable alternatives, or when you might want to use one or the other.

Coda Hale's post has a pretty good explanation of why bcrypt is good, but I personally find this to be more in-depth.



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