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Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 13:11:42 +0530
From: Sweta Mishra <swetam@...td.ac.in>
To: discussions <discussions@...sword-hashing.net>
Subject: Re: [PHC] Transforming hash to different cost setting

Thanks Jeremi, but for the calculation of a password hash another
requirement is that we need sufficiently large memory and we constantly use
them throughout the calculation. Now if we try to update the previous
stored hash then next calculation will only depend on the stored hash value
and then how will it fulfil the memory requirement criteria for
transforming hash to different cost setting.

Thanks & Regards
Sweta Mishra

On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 12:44 PM, Jeremi Gosney <epixoip@...dshell.nl>wrote:

> On 3/22/2014 12:09 AM, Sweta Mishra wrote:
> > What does the  'Ability to transform an existing hash to a different
> > cost setting without knowledge of the password', mean exactly?
>
> Simply put, it means the ability to take a password hash from the
> database and upgrade it to a higher cost setting without knowing the
> password. This way administrators can upgrade the security of an entire
> database without hooking the login process to re-hash the password, or
> forcing users to change their passwords.
>

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