I-D Action: draft-kistel-encrypted-password-storage-00.txt

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	Title           : Password Storage Using Public Key Encryption
	Author(s)       : Robert Kisteleki
	Filename        : draft-kistel-encrypted-password-storage-00.txt
	Pages           : 5
	Date            : 2013-12-08

Abstract:
   Current password storage methods predominantly use cryptographic hash
   functions in order to avoid storing users' passwords in clear text.
   Unfortunately, recent advancements in hardware design (notably GPUs)
   allow an attacker to try millions or even billions of password
   guesses per second which makes "decryption" of simple passwords
   feasible in short amounts of time.

   This document describes a password storage scheme that incorporates
   public key encryption in order to slow down password verification.
   Since public key algorithms are several orders of magnitude slower
   than hash functions, the result makes it much harder for an attacker
   to discover users' passwords from the stored, encrypted format.


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