Full Disclosure: Re: Salted passwords

["Lyal Collins" <lyalc () isp net au>]

I'm not a crypto guru, but it seems to me that this issue can be
crypto-anlayses somewhat like the speedups used to find hash collisions (if
I understand them at all).

The goal in both cases is to find a hash that 'collides' with a known hash
(password hash, or CC number of 6 BIN digits, 9,999,999,999 values and 1
checkdigit) from a known format.
i.e pre-compute some portion of the salt+_static_string_portion, then
brute-force the remainder of the string.

As long as the salt is private or long enough, then does it matter?
lyalc
 

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[mailto:full-disclosure-bounces () lists grok org uk] On Behalf Of T Biehn
Sent: Tuesday, 11 August 2009 6:51 AM
To: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
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Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Salted passwords

Valdis,
I don't have control over the set. Sorry I wasn't more explicit about this.
Although, it should have been obvious that the solution needed to satisfy
the conditions:
Data to one way hash.
The set has 9,999,999,999 members.

Thanks for your input sweetie!

-Travis

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 4:26 PM, <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
> On Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:14:57 EDT, T Biehn said:
> > Soliciting random suggestions.
> > Lets say I have data to one-way-hash.
> > The set has 9,999,999,999 members.
> Actually, if you're using a 10-digit decimal field, you probably have 
> 10**10 possible members - all-zeros counts too (unless there's *other* 
> reasons zero isn't a legal ID).  It's those little off-by-one errors that
tend to get you.
> ;)
>
> > It's relatively easy to brute force this, or create precomp tables.
> That's because you only have 10M billion members to brute force against.
>
> > So you add a salt to each.
> A better idea cryptographically would be to fix the 10**10 member 
> limit, so that the set *could* have a much higher possible number of 
> members.  Even staying at 10 characters, but allowing [A-Za-z0-9] (62 
> possible chars) raises your space to 62**10 or about 8.3*10**17 (or almost
10M times the difficuly).
> That's why most symmetric crypto algorithms use at least 64-bit or 
> even larger keys, and even larger for RSA and similar public-key systems.


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