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kogir
on June 26, 2011
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Electronic Arts Hates Strong Passwords
To beat the dead horse one more time, please use per-user salts and bcrypt, scrypt, or PBKDF2 (RFC 2898).
Single time hashes (even per-user salted), are no longer sufficient protection.
mapgrep
on June 26, 2011
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I think you mean "PBKDF2
with thousands or tens of thousands of iterations
," not single iteration like RIM was using :)
http://blog.crackpassword.com/2010/09/smartphone-forensics-c...
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Single time hashes (even per-user salted), are no longer sufficient protection.