Re:Important Kickstarter Security Notice
by danpalmer on Saturday February 15, 2014 @04:54PM
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Kerckhoff's principle: "A cryptosystem should be secure even if everything about the system, except the key, is public knowledge."
This applies here too. If it's secure, which good hashing is, releasing the details should have little to no effect on the security of those hashed passwords. It's also trivial to determine what the hashing scheme is in many cases.
This applies here too. If it's secure, which good hashing is, releasing the details should have little to no effect on the security of those hashed passwords. It's also trivial to determine what the hashing scheme is in many cases.