[plug] Is Red hat truly flawed?

[Kim Covil]

> This is, however, only one of the ways that bcrypt nullifies current
> attacks against other password hashing schemes.  If you want to know
> more I suggest you see "A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme" by Niels
> Provos and David Mazieres -- for memory it was part of a USENIX
> conference a few years ago.

For those that cannot be bothered searching for this the url is:
http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/provos/provos_html/

Cheers

Kim

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