{"id":4554,"date":"2012-06-08T17:38:15","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T22:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4554"},"modified":"2012-06-08T18:57:15","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T23:57:15","slug":"linkedin-password-leak-salt-their-hide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4554","title":{"rendered":"LinkedIn Password Leak: Salt Their Hide"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Let me walk through the process of password protection and explain why unsalted passwords are only infinitesimally better than plaintext passwords:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/queue.acm.org\/detail.cfm?id=2254400\">LinkedIn Password Leak: Salt Their Hide &#8211; ACM Queue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>LinkedIn is learning fast right now, according to their damage control missives, they have now implemented salting and &#8220;better hashing.&#8221; But we have yet to find out why nobody objected to them protecting 150+ million user passwords with 1970s methods.<\/p>\n<p>And everybody else should take notice too: Even if you use md5crypt, you should upgrade your password scrambling algorithm. As a rule of thumb: If it does not take a full second to calculate the password hash, it is too weak.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let me walk through the process of password protection and explain why unsalted passwords are only infinitesimally better than plaintext passwords: via LinkedIn Password Leak: Salt Their Hide &#8211; ACM Queue. Conclusion LinkedIn is learning fast right now, according to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4554\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[284],"tags":[670,338,478,632],"class_list":["post-4554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-servers","tag-algorithms","tag-encryption","tag-linkedin","tag-passwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4554"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4558,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4554\/revisions\/4558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}