Password storage (was Re: gmail security is a joke)

Thu May 28 14:41:46 UTC 2015

On 05/28/2015 02:29 AM, Robert Kisteleki wrote:
>> Bcrypt or PBKDF2 with random salts per password is really what anyone
>> storing passwords should be using today.
> Indeed. A while ago I had a brainfart and presented it in a draft:
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-kistel-encrypted-password-storage-00
>
> It seemed like a good idea at the time :-) It didn't gain much traction though.
>
>

Or you could choose to not store any form of password at all on the server:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc7486/

Mike