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


From: Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 07:41:46 -0700

On 05/28/2015 02:29 AM, Robert Kisteleki wrote:
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.



Or you could choose to not store any form of password at all on the server:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc7486/

Mike


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