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Password Encryption and Storage for Everyone

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Abstract

You should know how this works by now—first, a story. Chris is a junior developer working for Marvel Comics web team. It’s an abnormally hot summer in Burbank. He has just been tasked with building the login functionality for the new web/tablet comic portal his team is building. His “team” really means Chris and the other developer. Chris might have forgotten to wear deodorant today, why is it so hot?.

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Notes

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    This is fiction built from truth. Please don’t sue me Marvel.

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    http://www-ee.stanford.edu/~hellman/publications/36.pdf .

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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_table .

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    http://eprint.iacr.org/2005/165.pdf .

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    http://cryptography.hyperlink.cz/md5/MD5_collisions.pdf .

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    http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/11535218_2#page-1 .

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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law .

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    http://xkcd.com/936/ .

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    http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.password.php .

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    http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.65.9811 .

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    https://github.com/ircmaxell/password_compat/ .

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    https://www.schneier.com/book-applied.html .

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    http://blog.ircmaxell.com/ .

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Edmunds, B. (2016). Password Encryption and Storage for Everyone. In: Securing PHP Apps. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2120-4_3

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