Questions tagged [salt]
A salt is a random addition to a password to make the hashed password less susceptible to a lookup table attack
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Alternatives for sending plaintext password while login
Note: I've already read Is it ok to send plain-text password over HTTPS? and https security - should password be hashed server-side or client-side?, but here it's about a specific replacement method (...
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Problem understanding salting
I'm a beginner in Information Security and am learning about salting. Unfortunately, most of the time I have to learn by myself since the lecturer doesn't provide deep explanation on these. I now have ...
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Time it will take to crack a password file? [duplicate]
I'm trying to answer a multiple-choice question which is the following:
"Consider the security of a password file, which includes a 10 bit
salt and all passwords are hashed, but known to consist ...
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Does complexity of salt in password hashing matter?
I have no cyber security knowledge whatsoever, and am trying to safely store passwords in a database. I understood I need to use salt, to avoid rainbow table attacks and to make sure two users with ...
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Password salting vs. length extension attacks
I read that when salting passwords, it is advised to use a h(pwd||salt) construction instead of h(salt||pwd), the latter being vulnerable to a length extension attack.
What are possible scenarios in ...
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Is my password database encryption flow secure?
I'm not an expert and I would be very glad if someone could take a look at it and tell if there are any problems with it
Here are the diagrams of getting/setting the password file from and to the ...
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Is adding encryption before hashing more secure?
One way to secure a password in the database is to hash it with salt i.e. appending a random string to the password and then hash it and store the value.
Does encrypting the password || salt then ...
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Modifying a SHA256 system to be ASIC resistant
I am looking for a way to protect a system utilizing SHA256 on semi-weak passwords against brute force attacks using ASIC-levels of hash-power, ideally by designing a system that is ASIC resistant.
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Encrypting salted password hash before storing in the database
I have read here and here, that instead of using pepper, it is better to encrypt hashed/salted passwords before storing in the database. Especially with Java, as there's no library for salt/pepper, ...
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Why are salted hashes better than just hashing? [duplicate]
I have recently read an article about storing passwords safely and I have a few misunderstandings. I found out 4 ways of storing users' passwords:
Just keep them in plain text
Keep passwords in plain ...
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Is it possible to reverse a sha256 hashed value if we know part of the input value?
I'm a total noob, so please help me out.
Suppose something is hashed in sha256. If we know the value of some part of the hashed text, can we figure out the entire text?
Ex: xxxxxx + j4l58jl6j4l6j4 = ...
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Why people say that salt helps to prevent rainbow table attack? [duplicate]
I am using some frameworks that store salts inside databases. For example this article shows how Devise stores salt together with the user information. My question is why do people say that salts ...
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Is necessary to use salt if I use a complex password? [closed]
I read that it is important to use a salt together with the password to avoid rainbow table attack. I agree with that, but is there any difference, in terms of security, if
I use password + salt or
I ...
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How does a 'rainbow table' hacker obtain password hashes in the first place?
I don't understand this part of the Rainbow table attack.
In all my Google searches, it says that a hacker uses a rainbow table on password hashes.
But how does the hacker obtain the password hashes ...
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Client side password hashing with static salt - did I find a breach?
I downloaded a software that has a login interface. It's a $100 a month subscription software.
I disassembled the software and found that passwords are being sent by combining them with a hard coded &...
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What's the point of salting Double Submit Cookie (CSRF protection)?
Django web framework uses the Double Submit Cookie pattern for CSRF protection. (The CSRF token is sent in a cookie and also in a hidden form field. Incoming requests are checked for a match between ...
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Writing a Simple SHA256 Salted Hash Generator
I saw a video detailing how to write a simple salted hash program in C# here. Below is the code they wrote (slightly edited for console applications):
using System;
using System.Text;
using System....
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Oversalting Potentially Harmful?
I find it hard to believe, and figure I just missed or forgot something obvious (years since I thought about this stuff), so maybe someone can point it out. But it seems like most of what I know about ...
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Can a salt be a random ASCII string or be derived from one?
I'm using a KDF (PBKDF2HMAC) to generate a Fernet key from a given password, but to do so I also need to generate and store a salt.
import base64
import os
from cryptography.fernet import ...
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Can't solve format for Salted SHA1 hashes with Hashcat?
I am attempting to understand the format for this Salted SHA1 hash for an assignment. The line of text I was given was:
nameExample@email.com,nameExample,nameExample@email.com,nameExample,,,...
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Using a Pepper as the index to insert a salt
In this question on this board the author of the selected answer states the following.
If you, as an attacker, manage to extract hashes and salts from a database, you probably either find a way to ...
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Which part of this encoded Argon2 hash is the salt?
I was reading the post Is it safe/wise to store a salt in the same field as the hashed password?:
$argon2i$v=19$m=65536,t=3,p=1$YOtX2//7NoD/owm8RZ8llw==$fPn4sPgkFAuBJo3M3UzcGss3dJysxLJdPdvojRF20ZE=
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Using two salts - one stored with the password, one stored in a random row in a separate table
Imagine a login system is being created, and a user's password is hashed thusly:
Users.password = PBKDF2(salt1 + password + salt2)
The result of that ^ operation and salt1 are stored side-by-side in ...
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Is there a way to add salted hashing to my user authentication without breaking my former login server
I am presented with the following scenario:
I have a MySQL-Database with a table of users. The table has two fields: username and password. The password is stored as an unsalted hash.
An over 15 ...
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should giving salt to unauthenticated users be a problem
Let's say i have a scenario when the user salt is required in client side before login,
the user obtains the salt by this url http://my-api.example/get-salt/userid
that url should return a salt for ...
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Password hashing with salt. Where do you leave the salt? [duplicate]
I want to hash a set of sensitive data using a hash+salt. I've done a little research and now I know that:
The salt should be random.
The salt should not be reused.
Using hashing without salt makes ...
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How should we apply the salt to the password? [duplicate]
According to Wikipedia:
A rainbow table is ineffective against one-way hashes that include large salts. For example, consider a password hash that is generated using the following function (where "|...
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Am I using RfcDeriveBytes correctly, when the salt I'm providing it contains the password?
I'm using Rfc2898DeriveBytes in my application to encrypt a password with a randomly generated salt, and with a set iterator count for slowness.
Before, I just grabbed the generated salt and put it ...
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Anonymizing IP addresses using (sha) hashes; how to circumvent rainbow table attacks?
Under GDPR, IP addresses are personal data. I have no need to trace back IP to specific users, but I would like to limit downloads to one per IP.* I do not want to store plain IPs.
My first solution ...
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How can I re-use my password and still protect the password if it is exposed from one source?
I know that all servers should at least store my credentials as hash(password + salt) + salt, with a secure and well known hash function and a salt unique for me, generated from a secure and well ...
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is it safe to AES encrypt the RSA private key and storing it in the database
i'm building an app that really needs encryption of this type , my question is it safe to store the aes encrypted RSA key in the database ?
here is how i encrypt the key :
i generate a random 256 ...
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How to identify the right hash from a list of salts and pre-given password during authentication?
I apologize for being naive, but I only recently started learning about cryptography and how to go about the security online.
From what I've gathered, the safest-without-sacrificing-efficiency way ...
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How long will it take to crack a hashed random string
If I generate 128 bit, 512 bit and 1024 bit random strings using either:
A native rand() function (C, PHP, Python, etc)
OpenSSL random bytes
Hardware generated random number
And hash the random ...
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How to make the first request which used to create account safe? [duplicate]
To authorize user, our application defined below steps:
Send user email and password (plain text) through HTTPS.
When server received it, generate a salt to hash password and store it.
When user ...
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Letting client encrypt his/her data. How to ensure the client doesn't lose his/her private data?
I am designing a web service where the client is allowed to encrypt his own data on client-side software & then send it to our server, so they can be sure their data is private on our side. Then, ...
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Do I need to use salt with api key hashing?
I will generate api keys. I plan to store their hashes instead of plain text. do i also need salt, similar to storing password?
AFAIK salt prevents rainbow table attack and those are more ...
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Password storage which avoids privileged insider attack
What are the standard password authentication protocols in client-server setting where authentication happens at the remote server? Is there any password/pin verification protocol which reveals zero ...
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Is hashing without a salt secure for random passwords? [duplicate]
I'm designing an API with token authentication.
I don't want to store tokens as plain text in the database, for the same reason user passwords are not stored as plain text: if the database gets ...
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Is a combination of user login and site domain a sensible salt? [duplicate]
Just out of curiosity (since I know the established password hashing libraries should provide "proper" random salts), would a combination of the user login and the respective site's domain (or a hash ...
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Secure Register - Login Portal [closed]
Im trying to create a secure portal for parents to view their sons or daughters information.
I would need to have a register page. Im having trouble with hashing and salting the password.
Then I ...
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Appending a secret (pepper) to Argon2 password hashes
I've read quite a bit of the StackExchange and HackerNews debates on the user of "peppers" in password hash security. There are a number of different implementations of the idea of a pepper, ranging ...
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Hash pepper in web application possible?
I have read a few articles and several question on here about hashing correctly.
While hashing, adding salt and especially pepper is primarily a server side use case, I am interested in the ...
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bcrypt.checkpw() returning true for different salt+hash
new user here. I've tried searching for an answer but I don't think I know the correct terms to search for. I've tried things like "bcrypt same password different hash" but can't find an answer to my ...
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How long does it take to compute hashes using the MD5 hash algorithm? [closed]
1) If one iteration of MD5 takes x seconds, is it safe to assume that n iterations of MD5 takes n * x seconds?
2) Will salted and unsalted versions of md5 hash algorithms take approximately the same ...
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hashcat - cracking a salted sha256
Given a SHA512 hash, a salt, and username I am trying to crack the hash using hashcat. Every example I've found used a hashfile as input, is there way to provide salt and hash via commandline without ...
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Best tool for cracking SHA-1s with unique pre and post salts? [closed]
I can't find a tool that supports cracking SHA-1s with different pre and post salts. Any suggestions?
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Where do salts come from? [duplicate]
A salt can be a random value and length. The hash and the salt are stored in the database.
Is there a separate salt generator function used? Is it just a random generator?
Does it need to be a ...
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Does salted password hashes expose users with blank passwords?
Traditionally, a 'salted' hash of the password is stored along with the salt so there is no plaintext in the database and still be able to authenticate the password.
The salting process consists of ...
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BCrypt workfactor for salt?
From what I read here: How to securely hash passwords?, you're supposed to iterate the hashing. However in the implementation of BCrypt for .Net uses the workfactor (2^wf iterations) in the '...
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Recover SHA1-encoded email addresses
Say you have a list of SHA1 hashes which are all encoded with the same salt. All of these are email addresses and you know at least one combination of hash and email address.
Is it possible to use a ...
