WordPress 2.5’s New Password Hashing Scheme
Ryan Boren tells us there’s a new password hashing scheme in WordPress 2.5 (along with a new format for cookie authentication). Why is this important for WordPress users with little knowledge about security? If you share your users table with other applications or with other WordPress blogs that won’t be upgrading to 2.5 all at once, you’ll probably want to continue using MD5 hashes rather than the new hashes. Thankfully there’s a WordPress plugin that allows us to continue using MD5 hashes
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