Howto safely store a password

Howto safely store a password using ZF2

• MD5() + salt is not secure anymore, dictionary attacks can be performed much faster with modern CPU + cloud environments
• A secure alternative is the bcrypt algorithm
• Bcrypt uses Blowfish cipher + iterations to generate secure hash values
• Bcrypt is secure against brute force or dictionary attacks because is slow, very slow (that means attacks need huge amount of time to be completed)

//add this to your class
use ZendCryptPasswordBcrypt;

//Setup the encryption class
$bcrypt = new Bcrypt();

//Encrypt the password
$hash = $bcrypt->create('password');

//Verify password
if ($bcrypt->verify('password', $hash)){
	//correct password
}