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Re: [TLS] Working Group Last Call for draft-ietf-tls-pwd

"Dan Harkins" <dharkins@lounge.org> Fri, 06 December 2013 23:39 UTC

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Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2013 15:38:55 -0800
From: Dan Harkins <dharkins@lounge.org>
To: Joseph Birr-Pixton <jpixton@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [TLS] Working Group Last Call for draft-ietf-tls-pwd
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On Fri, December 6, 2013 3:25 pm, Joseph Birr-Pixton wrote:
> On 6 December 2013 20:00,  <tls-request@ietf.org> wrote:
>> From: "Dan Harkins" <dharkins@lounge.org>
>> To: "CodesInChaos" <codesinchaos@gmail.com>
>> Cc: "tls@ietf.org" <tls@ietf.org>
>> Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 10:29:22 -0800 (PST)
>> Subject: Re: [TLS] Working Group Last Call for draft-ietf-tls-pwd
>>
>> On Fri, December 6, 2013 3:14 am, CodesInChaos wrote:
>>> Database compromises happen all the time, and forcing the server to
>>> store a weakly hashed password
>>> isn't acceptable IMO.
>>
>>   You're absolutely right, that would not be acceptable.
>>
>>   TLS-pwd uses HMAC-SHA256 with a 32 byte random key (salt) to
>> hash passwords that the server stores.
>
> How does this not constitute an immensely fast password oracle?
>
> If the server stores (username, base, salt) per user with base :=
> HMAC-SHA256(salt, username || password) you'd only need to compute
> about 3 SHA256 blocks to check each candidate password.

  It's a balanced PAKE protocol. Like all such schemes (e.g EKE, J-PAKE)
the database of passwords is presumed to not be available to the
attacker.

  Dan.

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