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Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
liw@toot.liw.fi ("Lars Wirzenius") wrote:
I don't know who needs to read this today, but since it's been zero years since a security breach leaked cleartext passwords, I'm sure there are people who need to.
It's a 1978 paper by Ken Thompson and Robert Morris how Unix password storage evolved over the years. It's not even close to new, but it's better than what umpteen zillion web sites do today.