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Message-ID: <533DC5A2.4050506@thorsheim.net>
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 22:33:38 +0200
From: Per Thorsheim <per@...rsheim.net>
To: discussions@...sword-hashing.net
Subject: Re: [PHC] polypasshash slashdotted

Den 03.04.2014 22:10, skrev Jeremi Gosney:
> http://beta.slashdot.org/story/200265
>
> someone's trying to win this contest in the media... ;)
And they point to Honeywords as well, an interesting "security by
obesity" proposal that I remember several of us didn't quite agree upon
as a good idea...

There haven't been much press on PHC so far, I expect that to change
soon. A quick search about PHC gave me this little gem: "I like this,
but I fear whatever they come up with won't really be used unless NIST
also adopts it."

.per