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Crypto HNQ
Crypto HNQ
3:50 AM
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Q: Does having a hash of a password jeopardize the security of plaintext that was encrypted with that password?

OwenFlandersA malicious actor wants to decrypt ciphertext that was encrypted with a password. He also possesses the hash (bcrypt/PBKDF2) of that password. Does he have any significant practical advantage in decrypting that ciphertext as compared to just having the encrypted ciphertext (with no hash)? I beli...

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b degnan
b degnan
8:50 PM
@MaartenBodewes an aside to your comments above, I've noticed that the CS people that I've done research with were much worse at discrete mathematics than the signal processing CompEs. I have no idea how that got dropped from the curriculum as it's super important for almost any real problem
 
b degnan
b degnan
9:08 PM
of course, I write that and then I'm thinking that I don't know any problems but EE problems.
 

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