title: What's the big deal with brute force on hashes like MD5
body: <p>I just spent some time reading <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100730040942/https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2768248/is-md5-really-that-bad" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2768248/is-md5-really-that-bad</a> (I highly recommend!).</p>
  
  <p>In it, it talks about hash collisions. Maybe I'm missing something here, but can't you just encrypt your password using, say, MD5 and then, say, SHA-1 (or any other, doesn't matter.) Wouldn't this increase the processing power required to brute-force the hash and reduce the possibility of collision?</p>