BlowFish, the Only Way to Secure Your Passwords

I work in ForEx, one of the largest markets in the world, averaging 5.1 trillion dollars worth of trades on a daily basis. My employer also happens to be one of the largest brokers in the world, and I am a technical project lead for one of their main applications. In other words, the software my team and I work on is responsible for moving billions of dollars on a daily basis.

Being a paranoid schizophrenic is arguably a prerequisite for my job; if I fail at securing data, civilization as we know it might cease to exist. Hence, I’ll try to teach you in this article how you can secure your passwords — with brute force guarantee. I present to you, a fishing trip, fishing for BlowFish.