I’m happy to see WordPress is adopting bcrypt for password hashes. I have been following the trac ticket for over 10 years 🤯 Quite a few people got props on this one. If you’re not familiar, until now WordPress used a library called phpass for hashing passwords. WordPress has a history of maintaining backwards compatibility […] #
Matt Mullenweg on WordPress security: One problem we’ve had on WordPress.com is we do all these amazing things and don’t tell anyone about it My favorite example of this is the global CDN that Automattic operates in its own data centers. There are a lot of ways to measure the impact of this, but one way is […] #
