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pvncad  
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 More options Dec 4 2009, 1:22 am
From: pvncad <pvn...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 22:22:38 -0800 (PST)
Local: Fri, Dec 4 2009 1:22 am
Subject: WEP 100: Password generation from passphrase
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Ref: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Weave/WEP/100

Hi,

I am working with Anant to implement this WEP and had following
doubts.

I am thinking the adding "salt" to passphrase while auto-generating
password and providing a way to access this salt to public (as weave
clients should have this salt before logging into the weave server.

By storing this info at weave server, we are going to give some extra
info (digest and part of the input used to generate this digest) to
recreate the passpharse.

So, I will that we can get the same degree of security without using
the salt also. Please let me know if I am missing something in
understanding the rationale behind using salt.

Cheers.


 
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Dan Mills  
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 More options Dec 8 2009, 4:13 pm
From: Dan Mills <thun...@mozilla.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 13:13:54 -0800
Local: Tues, Dec 8 2009 4:13 pm
Subject: Re: WEP 100: Password generation from passphrase
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Without a salt, an attacker can create tables that will easily map
passphrases to their hashed representations.  That is bad.

With a salt, even if the salt is known, the attacker does not know
what the passphrase is--they have to brute-force the hash.

Dan


 
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