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Message-Id: <6BC8F2EF-4F9B-4F0F-BE08-64231DBEC569@goldmark.org> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:05:26 -0500 From: Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey@...dmark.org> To: discussions@...sword-hashing.net Subject: Re: [PHC] Password Hashing done wrong on CISCO IOS On 2013-03-21, at 8:52 PM, Peter Gutmann <pgut001@...auckland.ac.nz> wrote: > Marsh Ray <maray@...rosoft.com> writes: > >> The challenge with subtle password hash bugs is that QA can do a thorough job >> of black-box testing and still not catch 1 round instead of 1000. > Firefox (meaning probably NSS, so potentially lots of other products as well) > did this for quite some time, possibly years. It was only corrected when I > noticed it with dumpasn1 and filed a bug. Even then it took them over a year, Elcomsoft had discovered in 2010 that Blackberry backups used just one round of PBKDF2. I don't know whether that was a design error or an implementation error. http://blog.crackpassword.com/2010/09/smartphone-forensics-cracking-blackberry-backup-passwords/ If Andrey Belenko is following this discussion, he might be the one to ask. (I'm not sure exactly when he was with Elcomsoft). Cheers, -j
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