Re: Usefulness of offloading cryptographic hashing of passwords

2013-08-11 Thread Jan Stary
On Aug 09 21:46:06, binarysp...@binaryspike.com wrote: > I recently read an article from facebook on password cracking. Good for you. Say no more.

Re: Usefulness of offloading cryptographic hashing of passwords

2013-08-10 Thread Ted Unangst
On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 21:46, Nathan Goings wrote: > I recently read an article from facebook on password cracking. It got > Am I over-thinking this? Yes. People have recently become fascinated with bizarro password storage schemes. Something fairly simple like bcrypt (perhaps with an increased

Usefulness of offloading cryptographic hashing of passwords

2013-08-09 Thread Nathan Goings
I recently read an article from facebook on password cracking. It got me thinking about how useful dedicated hardware might be for hashing passwords. Source: http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/how-crackers-make-minced-meat-out-of-your-passwords/ Fairly basic stuff (MD5, brute & dictionary