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Responsible disclosure in open source: The crypt() vulnerability

Responsible disclosure in open source: The crypt() vulnerability

Posted Jun 11, 2012 10:31 UTC (Mon) by intgr (subscriber, #39733)
In reply to: Responsible disclosure in open source: The crypt() vulnerability by bsdphk
Parent article: Responsible disclosure in open source: The crypt() vulnerability

> With respect to the guidance I give: I you think that is a bad idea, I suggest you write an easy to use, liberally licensed password scrambler which actually solves the problem for a decade or two.

There are tons of free implementations of PBKDF2 and a few of scrypt. Those are the only two that are worth using. Surely you were aware of both? I'm surprised you're even suggesting that we need any new libraries/standards.


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