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Adaptive Hash Functions: How to tell how many iterations were used?
If an adaptive hash function like bcrypt or PBKDF2 is used in hashing passwords, the number of iterations used in the hashing process can be configured.
For a penetration tester or a malicious ...
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Is bcrypt better than GnupPG's iterated+salted hashing method?
GnuPG has slow hash built-in in form of iterated+salted S2K.
Does it have disadvantages in comparance with bcrypt or scrypt? Is GnuPG's slow hash method easily automated in GPUs?
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Do I have to recompute all hashes if I change the work factor in bcrypt?
The well-known article about why we should use bcrypt for hashing passwords mentions the work factor - some parameter to the algorithm that determines how long one hashing should be in terms of number ...
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How is BCrypt secure when it uses a static dataset for blowfish hashing?
I'm planning on using this Javascript BCrypt implementation, but as you can see in the code, it uses a 4KB precalculated dataset for the P and ...
