Original question was: "Can someone help me understand the usage of a salt in PasswordDeriveBytes?"
My understanding of salts has definitely crystalized (pun mostly not intended). This thread has been very helpful thanks to all who contributed. Cheers, Ed -----Original Message----- From: Craig Andera [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 10:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Salt in PasswordDeriveBytes > <snip/> > > But the > question was asking about salts, it wasn't asking for a > recommendation on > the entire authentication infrastructure. Even if it was, > there was not > enough information given about the application for anyone to > just say "use a > public key cryptosystem". Sounds like we were in violent agreement the whole time. At any rate, I'm curious if we ever did answer the orinal question. Original poster? You can read messages from the Advanced DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from Advanced DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com. You can read messages from the Advanced DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from Advanced DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
