You’ll get a lot of information here: http://chargen.matasano.com/chargen/2007/9/7/enough-with-the-rainbow-tables-what-you-need-to-know-about-s.html or http://www.openwall.com/phpass/

The goal is to hash the password with something slow so someone getting your password database will die trying to bruteforce it (a 10ms delay to check a password is nothing for you, a lot for someone trying to bruteforce it). Bcrypt is slow and can be used with a parameter to choose how slow it is.

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I’ve been developing Pork.dbObject on my own. (A simple PHP ORM and Active Record implementation)
The main reason is that I find most ORMs too heavy.

The main thought of Pork.dbObejct is to be light-weight and simple to set up. No bunch of XML files, just one function call in the constructor to bind it, and an addRelation or addCustomRelation to define a relation to another dbObject.

Give it a look: Pork.dbObject

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