Articles in “Passwords”

sha-512 follow-up and thank you

Chris Lyon

June 1, 2011

I made a statement in my previous post, SHA-512 w/ per Users Salts about a “significant hit rate” when it comes to dictionary attacking hashes. This significant hit rate is … Read more

SHA-512 w/ per User Salts is Not Enough

Chris Lyon

May 10, 2011

Back in January, I was having a causal conversation about passwords at a local gathering about security and was asked what we use for storing the passwords. I stated that … Read more

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