Password Storage Archives - 7ASecurity Blog https://7asecurity.com/blog/ Helping you secure apps and websites Mon, 01 Jul 2019 11:39:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://7asecurity.com/blog/contents/uploads/2019/06/favicon.ico Password Storage Archives - 7ASecurity Blog https://7asecurity.com/blog/ 32 32 Password Storage Challenge: bcrypt or loop salted hashes? https://7asecurity.com/blog/2012/06/password-storage-bcrypt-or-loop-salted/ https://7asecurity.com/blog/2012/06/password-storage-bcrypt-or-loop-salted/#comments Tue, 26 Jun 2012 06:26:00 +0000 Background A recent data breach on the LinkedIn database leaked around 6.5 million salted hashes. This ignited a healthy debate in the security community: – Some people said you should only use bcrypt and that salted passwords are useless – It was clear that LinkedIn failed to salt their passwords: This is the immediate worst option …

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