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"Salting" passwords before encryption #1

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Joey3000 opened this issue Nov 23, 2015 · 0 comments
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"Salting" passwords before encryption #1

Joey3000 opened this issue Nov 23, 2015 · 0 comments

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The missing but crucial feature is "salting" passwords before encryption. The salt does not need to be secret, it only needs to have a defined limited validity time, and to be known to both, the client and the server. So that the login page "nonce" can be used in LoginEncrypted.

P.S.: The reason for the need to salt is that, as of now, encrypted passwords can be used in replay attacks. Similarly to a pass-the-hash attack, but passing the encrypted password.

For the UsersManagerEncrypted plugin, see Joey3000/piwik-UsersManagerEncrypted#2.

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