phc-discussions - Re: [PHC] Best use of ROM in password hashing

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Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 16:52:13 +0000
From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@....freebsd.dk>
To: discussions@...sword-hashing.net,
        Krisztián Pintér <pinterkr@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PHC] Best use of ROM in password hashing

In message <1792820670.20140420183951@...il.com>, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kriszti=E1n_Pi
nt=E9r?= writes:

>reading this gave me an idea. what if we do the exact opposite?
>
>what if we make a device that is slow to read. it would have many TBs
>of data, but you could only read 1 bit at a time, and the device is so
>slow, [...]

That's not in any material way different from what I proposed about
offloading the entire password hash to a ARM chip with an USB port,
except for the fact that the "many TBs of data" will set you back
many coins in cost.

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