哈希密码和带特殊字符的返回字符串

Question

I am trying to use a hashing algorithm that is really strong and outputs special characters in the encoded string in PHP. Currently I am using hash_pbkdf2 which I understand to be the most secure form of hashing at the moment but it doesn't output a string with special characters only uppercase and lowercase. Is there any way to modify it to do such or is there another algorithm that would work better? Maybe if I combined this with another encryption algorithm which would then take the output of the hash_pbkdf2 and encrypt it to something with special characters as well?

Answer 1

If you are using it to hash passwords to store them password_hash() (http://php.net/manual/en/function.password-hash.php) or crypt() (http://php.net/manual/en/function.crypt.php) are better suited