[Cryptography] The proper way to hash password files

[Yann Droneaud]

Le jeudi 22 mai 2014 à 13:09 -0400, Phillip Hallam-Baker a écrit :
> Lots of sackcloth and ashes as EBay loses a password file.
> 
> It occurs to me that most of the time, machines do password files
> wrong. Rather than using a salted hash, a better approach would be to
> use a MAC with a randomly chosen key that is never disclosed.
> 
> Now this seems obvious but I can't recall ever seeing code set up to
> do the job this way...

The proper way to hash passwords is at https://password-hashing.net/

(or someone was late to submit her proposal !)

Regards.

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Yann Droneaud
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