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Since this has attracted the attention of some very knowledgeable people, can anyone suggest a good textbook/site/paper discussing password security and encrypt
by flashingleds 15y ago
Since this has attracted the attention of some very knowledgeable people, can anyone suggest a good textbook/site/paper discussing password security and encryption? Obviously I can google 'computer security' and find something, I just wondered if there was a well regarded standard reference (ala K&R or Art of Electronics). I don't understand the majority of the techniques being discussed here but would quite like to.
- tptacek 15y agoSorry, key derivation functions are kind of a back alley in crypto research. Your best bets are Colin's scrypt paper and the original bcrypt paper; the bcrypt paper is on the link at Coda Hale's "How To Store Passwords" article, which you can find plastered all over this thread, and Colin's paper is at: http://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt/scrypt.pdf http://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt/scrypt.pdf
- tedunangst 15y agohttp://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2898 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2898