[wp-hackers] New password hashing algo in trunk

[Jeremy Visser]

On Sun, 2007-12-23 at 17:08 -0800, Jared Bangs wrote:
> I know that there are a lot of people with MU installations (with lots
> of users) who are feeling vulnerable, so I just wanted to get that out
> there early. Didn't mean to step on anyone's toes there; sorry if
> that's how it came across.

Not at all — I misunderstood your intentions.

I tend to agree with you. A large blog host should be keeping its users
passwords as securely as possible, and a backport seems to be the only
way to get this done quickly.