Are You Sure SHA-1+Salt Is Enough For Passwords?

Melchett writes "It's all too common that Web (and other) applications use MD5, SHA1, or SHA-256 to hash user passwords, and more enlightened developers even salt the password. And over the years I've seen heated discussions on just how salt values should be generated and on how long they should be. Unfortunately in most cases people overlook the fact that MD and SHA hash families are designed for computational speed, and the quality of your salt values doesn't really matter when an attacker has gained full control, as happened with rootkit.com. When an attacker has root access, they will get your passwords, salt, and the code that you use to verify the passwords."

Re:Security cookbook?

[Brad1138]

It does not go too deep, but just deep enough:

That's what she said...

Re:Wait, what?

[ifrag]

Ouch... and here I was thinking my hand-harvested, shade-grown, organic Himalayan pink salt was the final solution to password security. That's the last time I trust the Himalayans.