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New Wordpress password hasher tool

By stotti | Published: June 30, 2009

This time just a quick post as I am in a hurry. Ever wondered how to change your Wordpress password in case you have forgotten it? In early versions Wordpress used the MD5 hashing algorithm to “encrypt” the passwords of a user. Nowadays Wordpress uses the Portable PHP password hashing framework (PHPASS) instead of MD5 [...]

Posted in hands off! this is my stuff, security & privacy | Also tagged cipher, hashsum, md5, wordpress | 9 Comments

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Christian Stottmeister is a technical projectmanager responsible for large website setups with a personal interest in security, web technology and projectmanagement issues. Contact information and more details about Stotti can be found here.
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