[Haskell-cafe] Password hashing

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hello Bit,

Wednesday, October 29, 2008, 4:32:51 PM, you wrote:

>> It's a good idea to salt your passwords before hashing, though. See
> What can be used for generating a random salt? Is System.Random secure enough?

if you use mkStdRNG it's good enough for non high-secure programs. it
inits rnd generator with current time upo to picoseconds (if your OS
provides such granularity). you can add a bit f security by reading a
few bytes from /dev/urandom and passing these to mkStdRNG

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 Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com