Currently I'm busy on a programming project, not one for a school, college or job but one for myself. (Simply I got fed up with hiring a server and acting a script kiddie when it came for content)

So I've dusted off my programming books and got back to attempting to reiterate what I can understand of PERL as a language. (I know others prefer PHP however in this instance PERL is all I can muster bookwise)

Anyhow, I'm currently looking at generating an Encryption method for a password, simply the current reason is just to encrypt a password to a database where the hash can be checked against future re-iterations of the password through a login script.

Simply you might say, just run it through MD5, however MD5 is statically seeded, in the sense that it on it's own isn't as strong as involving other encryption processes into the fold.

So I'm asking what interesting Encryption modules do people recommend for strength? (I'm also suggest that this thread is used in the future for discussion on Encryption/Decryption methods, Algorythms etc)