phc-discussions - Re: [PHC] Any "large verifiers" on the panel?

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Message-ID: <20130219001941.GA21498@openwall.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 04:19:41 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: discussions@...sword-hashing.net
Subject: Re: [PHC] Any "large verifiers" on the panel?

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 12:38:31AM +0100, Patrick Mylund Nielsen wrote:
> That attackers are compromising servers and sniffing passwords over the
> wire, waiting for re-authentications, rather than just grabbing the
> database.

Both of these things (and many others) are happening.  It is non-obvious
which is more common.

Alexander