# password_hash() deprecate salt option - thoughts?

- Thread: https://externals.io/message/85596
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- Started by Scott Arciszewski on 2015-03-31T18:55:53+00:00
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## #85596 — Scott Arciszewski — 2015-03-31T18:55:53+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/85596#85596

I'd vote yes on this one, if it were an RFC. Please expedite this
deprecation for 7.0.

Can we also deprecate MCRYPT_RAND? I opened an RFC for that a long time ago
and just remembered it.