Password hashing
Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino
itojun at itojun.org
Sat Oct 13 00:33:56 EDT 2007
> A proposal for a new password hashing based on SHA-256 or SHA-512 has
> been proposed by RedHat but to my knowledge has not had any rigorous
> analysis. The motivation for this is to replace MD-5 based password
> hashing at banks where MD-5 is on the list of "do not use" algorithms.
> I would prefer not to have the discussion "MD-5 is good enough for
> this algorithm" since it is not an argument that the customers
> requesting these changes are going to accept.
blowfish anyone?
http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/provos/provos_html/
itojun
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