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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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?
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 ...
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How do I combine a salt and hash for John The Ripper? [duplicate]
I found a password hash
*61A2BD98DAD2A09749B6FC77A9578609D32518DD
I found a salt somewhere else.
How do I combine these to feed into John the Ripper?
When I run John on the hash (minus the *) John ...
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Implementing SRP without storing the salt anywhere
I am attempting to use SRP to verify clients when they authenticate with a webserver, so that the password is never sent over the wire.
Looking at the SRP procedure, when a client registers with the ...
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Difference in between salt and random padding in cryptography
I would like to know what is difference in between using salt and using "random padding" in cryptography. I am familiar with term salt when we use it with hashing. How does "random padding" differ ...
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How is a pepper used with salted passwords?
How is a pepper (a large constant number) used after a password has been salted with a salt by a hashing function such as bcrypt?
From Sybex CISSP Official Study Guide, 8th Edition (2018):
Adding ...
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Slow Hashing Without a Salt?
I'm trying to design a security scheme that involves a shared secret but isn't a traditional account password situation. The server would store a set of "keys", each of which has a blob of data ...
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Common format to send encrypted data + IV?
I have an app that receive data from third parties using various protocols: MQTT, HTTP, AMQP, ...
Some clients cannot use TLS (iot devices without TLS support), so we need to find some compact and ...
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Hash a secret API key with a random salt instead of sending sending it alone in REST API
Say, I have an internal https API endpoint used only by me being the admin.
In each each request I send a secret API key for authentication. And I'm fine with this solution.
curl -x PUT .......
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Securing hashes of short enumerated values
The system manages and stores sensitive data of short strings.
Because the sensitive data is of an enumerated type with limited set of well known values, the attacker could easily iterate all the ...
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How to securely generate and store the salting for password hash? [duplicate]
Assume a client authenticates using the password, which includes hashing and salting. The hash values are stored in a remote database server.
Questions:
For the hash values stored in the database ...
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Generating salt for hash that occurs on server and client
Let's say I have an API call which is supposed to check if email address exists in the DB, without transmitting the actual email address.
For that purpose, I've decided to store SHA256 hash of the ...
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How can I use openssl to decrypt AES-encrypted data using the key and initialization vector?
I am attempting to follow the example in this question:
Where is the salt on the OpenSSL AES encryption?
but I'm having some trouble decrypting using the key and initialization vector.
When I ...
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Why has salt option been deprecated as of PHP 7.0.0?
http://php.net/manual/en/function.password-hash.php
Is that less secured ?
echo password_hash("rasmuslerdorf", PASSWORD_DEFAULT);
=> $2y$12$QjSH496pcT5CEbzjD/vtVeH03tfHKFy36d4J0Ltp3lRtee9HDxY3K
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Can one find the value of a “constant salt” if they can set the password and get the hash?
Saying we have an oracle that an attacker can use as many time as they want. The attacker can send a non-empty password to this Oracle. The Oracle hashes the password using sha256(password + pepper), ...
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How to store secret key used for hashing?
I am trying to figure out a secure way to store secret keys used in the hashing of social security numbers.
The idea is for de-identification of research subjects yet still permitting follow-ups ...
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Can hash collisions be eliminated by hashing twice? [duplicate]
Suppose I have a file verified.txt that has a certain hash X.
An attacker can form an impostor.txt that replicates the hash with different content, resulting in a collision for a given algorithm, and ...
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Using the user's GUID-id as a salt for Rfc2898DeriveBytes
I use the Rfc2898DeriveBytes for creating an AES key for protecting the user's data.
For the salt value I would like to use the user's id, which is a guid.
My understanding is, that the only drawback ...
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Does having a salted password hash make cracking an unsalted hash of the same password easier?
I've been asked to implement a system to prevent reusing passwords on the same account.
The most secure way I know to do this is to compare hashes of the password + a known salt. bcrypt.hash(sha256(...
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bcrypt no need to store salt?
I'm confused with bcrypt, I would think I would need to store my salt, and then compare my plain text password + salt to the hashed password, however from documentation it does not look like storing ...
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Should I store my encrypted password's salt and initialization vector as clear text?
I'm encrypting some file with AES-256-CBC, and I'm planning to store the cipher text in a json file, with something like:
{
"data": "0123456789ABCDEF...",
"salt": "00123ABCAABBCCDD...",
"...
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Encrypted data embedded in JPG and Other file types
This is some data found near the end of a JPG file:
18{8uck3y3$}
! 18{b4063c521f76545d8c94e999dd63f445d8c01cfc}
# 18{U2FsdGVkX19RJjdBbDB51ok1hkFXaB91NpZNoQjbVXYlMeMTaWRTdg==}?
Other files on the ...
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Is it safe/wise to store a salt in the same field as the hashed password?
In using Argon2 for hashing passwords in my application, I've noticed it generates a string like this (e.g. for password "rabbit"):
$argon2i$v=19$m=65536,t=3,p=1$YOtX2//7NoD/owm8RZ8llw==$...
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How to verify 2 hashed values with different salts originating from the same clear-text password?
I have a project where I need to do an account merge across two websites.
Some percentage of users have accounts on both sites (same email address). Rather than just assume that two accounts with ...
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Store hashes for a finite set of strings that would be extremely time consuming to reverse via table lookup but also allow grouping
Lets say I have finite set of strings (lets say half a billion). There can never be any other strings I would need to store other than these half a billion strings. The strings may be repeated in my ...
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How to get desired output from salt? [closed]
If you wanted to get a specific output from php's $salt. function, how would you do this. By this I mean,
If you know $salt."some_value" gives you desired_value, how do you find that some_value, if ...
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Web Service Authentication Using PBKDF2 and a Public Salt - Does the salt need to change on every request?
I have implemented PBKDF2 authentication for some web services.
The client is given the following information, so they can duplicate the PBKDF2 function:
the hashing algorithm (SHA256)
a secret ...
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Is it safe to check password against the HIBP Pwned Passwords API during account registration?
User registers account on a web app. Passwords are salted and hashed.
But is it safe to check the password against the HIBP Pwned Passwords API, before salting and hashing it? Of course the app uses ...
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How does the attacker know what algorithm and salt to use in a dictionary attack?
I am curious about password cracking methods like dictionary and brute force attacks. Nowadays passwords are stored as hashes and not plaintext on the server. Then how can the plaintext passwords in ...
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if salt stored in user, will it be possible to use brute force attack? [duplicate]
I had done a lot of research about this topic.
Before Researchs
I found that some people suggest that to hide salt is not important: https://crackstation.net/hashing-security.htm
But also this ...
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Why do salts for hashing passwords need to be globally unique, not just system/site-unique?
I was reading an answer by Terry Chia to another question about the requirements for a salt, in which he/she (among others) specified that salts need to be globally unique, but don't go into any ...
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Is salting a hash more secure than encrypting it?
Assuming most-secure algorithms used for either, what I'd like to understand and get the answer for, is whether a salted hash is more secure than an encrypted hash?
Although similar to this question ...
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Is appending a salt before hash generation enough
I have what I think is a securely generated salt/hashing mechanism for HMAC authentication based on SHA256 in place. However, I'm using the salt in, from what I can see, a fairly standard way of just ...
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Would it be considered good practice to make the salt for a password the hash of the user's username? [duplicate]
I heard it was good practice to have each user have a unique salt, when I'm hashing a user's password with a salt. My question is, can I make my salt a hash of the user's username? Ex.
$username_hash ...
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Hash, salt and best practices [duplicate]
Reading about hashing, salt and pepper, I can't get my head around the following scenario:
If there's a web application and you register on that site, should the password be hashed on the client or ...
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Does storing Base64 encoding of scrypt password hash make it more vulnerable?
Scrypt produces a binary hash of a password. Instead of storing it as bytes directly, we are considering to store the Base64 encoding of this string.
Would that make the password hash more vulnerable ...
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Scrambling a salted password before hashing. Good idea or unnecessary?
I'm updating a legacy classic ASP site and I need to store passwords, so naturally I'm being a bit over cautious about how to go about this given the limitations of Classic ASP.
I'm using both a salt ...
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Password Hashing [duplicate]
I am currently securing the password in PHP using hashing + salt. Before that I only used hashing but recently someone recommended using salts.
My previous code:
$password=hash('sha512',$...
