Passwords are secret keys which human beings can memorize.
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What's the reason for applying the hash twice when hashing with salt?
One of the typical approaches to computing a salted hash is this:
hash(salt+hash(secret))
where hash is something like SHA-256 hash function - taking any size ...
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Idea for secure password hash-likes, is this feasible/usable/workable?
(Hand moved from stackoverflow.com,due to suggestion)
Since breaking password hashes has become a new passtime for scriptkiddies, I thought of the problem and came up with a novel(?) idea.
store ...
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Hash decrypts key, key decrypts cipher… why?
I noticed recently that a couple of pieces of encryption software (TrueCrypt being one of them) don't directly use a hash of the password as the key for the block cipher. Instead, they generate a ...
