Re: Salted passwords

[antisec () hushmail com]

AntiSec would like to approach you by telling you to keep you 
whitehat filty ass off our list, Travis.

Have a nice day sucking off Aitel.

On Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:14:57 -0400 T Biehn <tbiehn () gmail com> wrote:
> Soliciting random suggestions.
> Lets say I have data to one-way-hash.
> The set has 9,999,999,999 members.
> It's relatively easy to brute force this, or create precomp 
> tables.
> So you add a salt to each.
> Still easy to brute force.
> If you were to create it in such a way that the hash could exist
> anywhere in the set member, does this increase the cost of 
> computation
> enough?
>
> That is, consider a member 'abcdefg' with salt 329938255.
> When authenticating against the server, it must permute over all
> possible combinations of the salt and the set member in order to
> determine the validity of the password.
>
> If anyone has a better approach, or would like to approach me off
> list, or knows of a list more suited to these queries please feel 
> free
> to redirect me :)
>
> -Travis
>
> _______________________________________________
> Full-Disclosure - We believe in it.
> Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html
> Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/

_______________________________________________
Full-Disclosure - We believe in it.
Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html
Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/