[Owncloud] Salt

Arthur Schiwon blizzz at owncloud.com
Fri Jun 8 08:34:18 UTC 2012


On 06/08/2012 10:15 AM, Andreas Schneider wrote:
> You know there is this rocket sience technology from the 70ies. It is called
> salt in cryptography. I suggested several times to use salting in owncloud but
> we still don't have it.

For password hashing we make use of phpass meanwhile which hashes the 
password (cf. function HashPassword in 3rdparty/phpass/PasswordHash.php).

Or do is see it/sth wrong?

Cheers
Arthur

>
> First linkedin:
> http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/LinkedIn-confirms-that-user-
> passwords-were-compromised-1612554.html
>
> then last.fm:
> http://www.lastfm.de/passwordsecurity
>
>
> next: your owncloud installation ...
>
>
>
> 	-- andreas
>
>
>
>



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