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Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 14:03:06 -0700
From: "Dennis E. Hamilton" <dennis.hamilton@....org>
To: <discussions@...sword-hashing.net>
Subject: RE: [PHC] Hashing password while typing

Overlapping hashing and keystroke entries also doesn’t work well when a password is copy and pasted into the entry from a password safe via a clipboard.

This seems to have a limited use case when keystrokes are being entered to a local application (or a terminal session) and processed individually as received.  That’s not exactly the common case, especially in GUI settings and use of form fields.  

-   Dennis

From: Bill Cox [mailto:waywardgeek@...il.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 6, 2014 07:55
To: discussions@...sword-hashing.net
Subject: Re: [PHC] Hashing password while typing

On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Thomas Pornin <pornin@...et.org <mailto:pornin@...et.org> > wrote:
Thus, I don't exactly understand what you are trying to say here.

        --Thomas Pornin

Well, I did call it a "dumb" idea :-)  I get inflicted with them a lot.  I agree... it doesn't seem like there's much to be gained with such an approach.  I was hoping someone might see a way to get around the precomputed prefix problem.  I haven't found one.

Bill

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