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HashMask - Another (More Secure) Experiment in Password Masking

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Re: HashMask - Another (More Secure) Experiment in Password Masking

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Yeah, yeah. I'm waiting to hear how you could conceivably brute force the password from that graph (and only that graph) if it had a random per-user salt.

I like the authentication system where you are guaranteed a nonce-bearing cookie identifying the user, but still forcing them to type their password. You know, just to be sure. But I have an improvement on your system. Instead of a 16 bit salt, use a FIVE HUNDRED TWELVE bit salt. That's 32 times the saltiness! But just to trip evil hackers up, why don't you call that salt "PHPSESSIONID". I think that scheme is so sal…

Right, whatever, I was trying to have an actual conversation.

Re: HashMask - Another (More Secure) Experiment in Password Masking

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Another thing I love about this discussion is the intimation ("big brother") that in order to get a picture of my screen, you have to be the NSA. And not, you know, some jackass with a camera.

Sure, sure, it could be both. It could be my girlfriend looking over my shoulder too. But of course, I don't use an stupidly easy password and I don't let my girlfriend see me typing it (2-finger typing style, of course). I mean who does that, right? :) I just find it interesting to observe the discrepancies between perception of security and actual math-backed security.

I don't use a stupidly easy password either, but I'm not going to give you the password hash from my laptop. That's what this scheme does.
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