[Haskell-cafe] Password hashing
Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
allbery at ece.cmu.edu
Thu Oct 30 21:47:03 EDT 2008
On 2008 Oct 30, at 9:12, roger peppe wrote:
> i'd be interested to know if you know of any studies on this.
>
> i know of at least one system that uses it as the basis for
> its crypto. superficially it's certainly an attractive method, with
> minimal
> external dependencies, and, i'd have thought, at least a useful
> addition to just using the system time.
It turns out to be trivial to game randomness generated from scheduler
activations: just launch enough other CPU-using processes to max out
the scheduler and the search space gets *very* small.
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electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH
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