Re: Hashing algorithm needed

2010-09-09 Thread James A. Donald
On 2010-09-09 6:35 AM, Ben Laurie wrote: What I do in Nigori for this is use DSA. Your private key, x, is the hash of the login info. The server has g^x, from which it cannot recover x, Except, of course, by dictionary attack, hence g^x, being low entropy, is treated as a shared secret. and

Re: Hashing algorithm needed

2010-09-09 Thread Ben Laurie
On 9 September 2010 10:08, James A. Donald jam...@echeque.com wrote: On 2010-09-09 6:35 AM, Ben Laurie wrote: What I do in Nigori for this is use DSA. Your private key, x, is the hash of the login info. The server has g^x, from which it cannot recover x, Except, of course, by dictionary