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| | neilmadden.blog

There has been a lot of discussion recently around the LastPass breach, especially with regards to the number of PBKDF2 iterations applied to the master password to derive the vault encryption key. Other people have already dissected this particular breach, but I want to more generally talk about PBKDF2 iterations and security models. (I'm not...
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| | crackstation.net

How to hash passwords properly using salt. Why hashes should be salted and how to use salt correctly.
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| | soatok.blog

Programmers don't understand hash functions, and I can demonstrate this to most of the people that will read this with a single observation: When you saw the words "hash function" in the title, you might have assumed this was going to be a blog post about password storage. (Passwords are the most common knee-jerk reaction...
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| | blog.cynosureprime.com

Recovered Percent Total 360,213,049 Usable data 359,005,905 355,886,686 99.13% Unique 116,822,086 113,830,176 97% Salted hashes 68...
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