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Originally Posted by cbk1994
The first rule of security is best phrased as "don't try to make your own, you'll **** it up". Pick an algorithm that's been well-researched and is known-strong to implement.
You should almost never encrypt passwords, plus any encryption scheme worth its salt (hah!) is strong regardless of whether or not the algorithm used is known.
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I'm under the impression he's not trying to use this but he's only playing with it to help better understand it.. Also, salts are a good idea too.