OT: Salted Hashes and dictionary attacks

Kiefer, Sascha sk at intertivity.com
Tue Nov 15 21:12:52 CET 2005


Hi.

I'm i right:

We calculate the salted hash d of the password p and the salt s using the
hash-function H like this:

d = H( p + s ) + s

This will have the affect that d != H( p + s' ) + s' (only if s != s') but
will not protect us against a dictionary attack since
we can easily precompute H( w_i ) where w_i is the ith word of our
dictionary and then just have to validate d == H( H( w_i ) + s ) !?!

Thanks.
--sk





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