Re: Variable Key Stretching for v3

"Philip Newton" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.passwordsafe.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2/20/06, Rony Shapiro <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hm. Another option might be to not put the number in the database at all,
> and let the aplication test all values after a minimum threshold up to an
> insane maximum. This has the nice property that wrong passphrases would take
> *much* longer to be rejected than for correct passphrases to be accepted.
>
> What say?

Please no -- I don't want a little typo in my key phrase to make the
application lock up for ten minutes or more before I can try again.
--
Philip Newton <[email protected]>


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