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I was wondering are there any plans to use SHA-1 (or SHA-2) passwords in UBB.threads 8.0? Currently, UBB.threads uses MD5, which has been found to have several vulnerabilities compared to SHA-1 and SHA-2. I think for UBB.threads 8.0, passwords should be either SHA-1 or SHA-2 based instead of MD5.

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agreed.. add some pepper and salt too wink

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See, when I was talking to CC when v8 was in its conception, i was all excited because passwords where going to have a dual salt and be md5ed...

But instead they're just md5ed and can be run through a hash comparison site and tada, theres user passwords...

Though ones site has to be hacked before someone could copy your db to compare passwords, but I always liked the security aspect of at least a basic salt to md5


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