sci.crypt archive
Re: Searching for a special challenge&response algorithm
From: David Wagner <daw@taverner.cs.berkeley.edu>
Date: Sat Apr 29 2006 - 21:02:40 CEST
Date: Sat Apr 29 2006 - 21:02:40 CEST
Jan Peter Stotz wrote:
>I am just looking for a algorithm which could slow down password
>guessing/brute force attacks on a more general level.
Oh, I didn't realize that was what you wanted. Ok, here are some more
key words that you can go read about: "password-authenticated key exchange"
(should be exactly what you want!), "key strengthening", "key stretching".
PKCS#5 is a good example of the latter.
Received on Mon May 1 02:06:11 2006