Re: How are you authenticating you applications?
- From: Greg Rahn <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: cicciuxdba@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 15:03:02 -0800
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Guillermo Alan Bort
<cicciuxdba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> We are working on providing the hashed password, so all the non-dbas get
> is a hash... but I don't know how strong the eencryption really is... and
> I'd like to let my i7 have a go at cracking one and see how long it takes...
> still, a non-human-intervention approach would be appreciated :-)
I'm not sure what you mean by this but I would strongly suggest this
as a starting point:
http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/
BTW, an i7 is nothing... just spend a week or so to learn Nvidia CUDA,
rent a few dozen Amazon Web Services Cluster GPU instances and you
will be frightened to learn how many hundreds of billions of password
candidates (yes billions!) you can try in a few seconds.
All at the hands of anyone with an AWS account. Makes you think at
least twice about password security.
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Regards,
Greg Rahn
http://structureddata.org
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