(PHP) SHA1 vs md5 vs SHA256: which to use for a PHP login?
- by hatorade
I'm making a php login, and I'm trying to decide whether to use SHA1 or Md5, or SHA256 which I read about in another stackoverflow article. Are any of them more secure than others? For SHA1/256, do I still use a salt?
Also, is this a secure way to store the password as a hash in mysql?
function createSalt()
{
$string = md5(uniqid(rand(), true));
return substr($string, 0, 3);
}
$salt = createSalt();
$hash = sha1($salt . $hash);
