Password hashing weakness in DF

Aggelos Economopoulos aoiko at cc.ece.ntua.gr
Tue Jan 17 14:50:05 PST 2012


On 01/17/2012 10:12 AM, Matthias Schmidt wrote:
> He guys,
> 
> I want to bring the following discussion on the oss-security list to
> your attention:
> 
> http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/16/2
> 
> This post and previous posts contain all known details.  It seems Solar
> contacted Matt before, but unfortunately he does not responded (or at
> least not on the list, I'm subscribed).

Ugh. This is bad and, even worse, it's not immediatelly obvious how to
fix it w/o breaking any systems using this implementation.

Thanks for publicizing this Matthias!
Aggelos





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