The past (almost) 2 years have been a great ride and I will be forever astonished by the talented people at Mozilla and in the community. With that said, it is hard to leave a place like this, but for me that time has come. June 3rd will be my last day here at Mozilla [...]
Archive for May, 2011
SHA-512 w/ per User Salts is Not Enough
Posted: May 10, 2011 in MozillaTags: bcrypt, hashes, passwords, sha512
Back in January, I was having a causal conversation about passwords at a local gathering about security and was asked what we use for storing the passwords. I stated that we are using sha-512 w/ per user salts but we are looking at moving away from this standard to something much stronger. The response that [...]
