Playing Defence with PBKDF2

Passwords13 Las Vegas

Presented by: Jeffrey Goldberg (jpgoldberg)
Date: Wednesday July 31, 2013
Time: 14:00 - 14:20
Location: Main Room
Track: Passwords13

Hashcat sped up cracking the 1Password Agile Keychain due, in part, to a design flaw in PBKDF2. I tell the story of the flaw, how it bit us, and our response from the defender's point of view.

Jeffrey Goldberg

Jeffrey Goldberg, aka jpgoldberg, is Chief Defender Against the Dark Arts for AgileBits, the makers of 1Password, where he helps craft and writes about the security design of 1Password. Previously, as mail/sysadmin at a university, he thought passwords would go away "in three to five years". Contrary to popular belief, he is *not* a Sith lord in disguise.


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