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In the meantime, I really enjoy using Marco Arment's Bcrypt PHP class: https://gist.github.com/marcoarment/1053158

Bcrypt? It's all about scrypt these days. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10149554/are-there-any-ph...

The password hashing stuff should be really nice in the long run--at least when it's widely used.

PHP in particular seems to have a lot of bad home brew implementations out there, so it'll be nice to have a better default.

Wow, those are finally going away? It's almost like the end of an era. Cool.

They were removed in 5.4 [1]

[1]http://www.php.net/manual/en/migration54.incompatible.php

There is a PHP 5.3.7+ implementation of the password API here: https://github.com/ircmaxell/password_compat

I too am looking forward to the new Password Hashing API. Having quick ability to hash and verify a password should save a fair bit of time in the long run.