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| | To securely store passwords they should be hashed with a slow hashing function, such as PBKDF2. PBKDF2 is slow because it calls a fast hash function many times. This blog post explores some properties that the iterations must have to be secure.
| | scottarc.blog
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| | Head's up: This is a blog post about applied cryptography, with a focus on web and cloud applications that encrypt data at rest in a database or filesystem. While the lessons can be broadly applicable, the scope of the post is not. One of the lessons I learned during my time at AWS Cryptography (and...
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| | About the many types of hash functions, their use-cases, dos and don'ts, with suggestions for currently accepted algorithms.
| | pboyd.io
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| Here's a fun list to look through: Dumb Password Rules. Most of the rules seem arbitrary, like only allowing digits, but some hint at deeper problems. For instance, preventing single-quotes. They aren't inserting passwords into a database without a SQL placeholder, right? Nearly every site on that list has a needlessly short maximum password size. If they're storing passwords correctly, there's no need for this. This post will go through a few bad ways to store a password and you can see what I mean....