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Password storage (was Re: gmail security is a joke)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Kisteleki)
Thu May 28 05:29:36 2015

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> Bcrypt or PBKDF2 with random salts per password is really what anyone
> storing passwords should be using today.

Indeed. A while ago I had a brainfart and presented it in a draft:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-kistel-encrypted-password-storage-00

It seemed like a good idea at the time :-) It didn't gain much traction though.

Robert


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