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Hah, you're right. It's practically impossible to generate passwords in such way that they will give hashes differing by only a byte. Sorry, I see timing attack
by dchest 15y ago
Hah, you're right. It's practically impossible to generate passwords in such way that they will give hashes differing by only a byte. Sorry, I see timing attacks everywhere.
- tptacek 15y agoHave you actually ever written an exploit for one? It'll cure you of that problem really fast. (I'm being serious, not snarky).
- dchest 15y agoThis is actually a very good advice, especially for people like me who have hard time visualizing how complex things work. For example, when I tried to understand what the meet-in-the-middle attack is, and couldn't, it was incredibly helpful to implement it (https://gist.github.com/1062437 https://gist.github.com/1062437). Then I understood.