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Re:A mode for password hashing by nly on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @12:30PM (#8625018)
This is pretty much why HSMs and good PAKE protocols are important. Key stretching only buys you a degree of computational hardness, whereas not storing or exchanging password derived material at all makes offline cracking provably hard.

Hashing is just a stopgap measure that hopefully gives your users time to do something before they're compromised. It's hard to say how effective it is in practice when a new db dump goes to auction.

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