On Sunday, September 15, 2013 11:45:29 AM UTC+2, Ram Rachum wrote:

> What if instead of calculating the PBKDF2 hash of the password, we'll 
> calculate the PBKDF2 hash of its SHA1 hash? Then the time of checking 
> passwords wouldn't depend on their length, and we wouldn't even have to 
> place a limit of 4096 characters on passwords-- An attacker could try a 
> 1MB-long password but it would slow us down the same amount as trying 
> "123456" would. 
>

PBKDF2 takes long by design… A better long term solution would be to rate 
limit password attempts…

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