Is there any sense in such encryption?

Question

PHP

Hello. Is there any point in this code, or is it possible to do with simple MD5?
hash('sha256', sha1(md5($password)));

Answer 1

there is little sense, use better simple sha256, not MD5. MD5 is not secure and has collisions and is abandoned in most cases. And if possible, add a salt to the password .

Answer 2

If you want to hash the password, then there is no point in cycling, use the password_hash and password_verify functions

Answer 3

In the example, it's enough: hash('sha256', $password);
And rightly so, it's better to use "salt":hash('sha256', $salt.$password.$salt);

Answer 4

I do like this:

$salt = 'somerandomcharacters';
$password = hash('sha256', $_POST['password'].$salt);