phc-discussions - Re: [PHC] Re: The best of the best, IMO

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Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 08:49:52 -0400
From: Bill Cox <waywardgeek@...il.com>
To: discussions@...sword-hashing.net
Subject: Re: [PHC] Re: The best of the best, IMO

On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 9:06 AM, Bill Cox <waywardgeek@...il.com> wrote:

> Centrifuge, like several others, did not encode input lengths, and has
> input collisions as a result.  In this case, I think appending 0 bytes to
> either password or salt, up to a total of 16 bytes, has no effect on the
> result.
>

I got an email off-list suggesting that I am wrong on this point, and I am!
 Sorry to the Centrifuge author.  There are no salt/password collisions in
Centrifuge.

Bill

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