Key Hash With Securely-Optimal Setting : For Encryption vs For Password

Do you have to make a key hash with securely-optimum setting (eg. 100MB memlimit, 3 opslimit) for encryption ?
So I’m making a text encryption function with javascript, using XChaCha20-Poly1305 and Argon2id. It’s already working. The way i… Continue reading Key Hash With Securely-Optimal Setting : For Encryption vs For Password

How certain is it that a shorter password can’t match the salted hash of a long one? [migrated]

We (collectively) salt passwords, then hash them; maybe even run them through something like PBKDF2 first (depending on how the password will be used).
The end result is that we have a string p and map it to a fixed-length string p’ using … Continue reading How certain is it that a shorter password can’t match the salted hash of a long one? [migrated]

john the ripper tool – how to combine wordlist with incremental modes?

In hashcat, when we need to crack password based on wordlist, but additionally want to try partly bruteforce random ASCII characters in the end of any entry from the wordlist, we can use the following command:
hashcat -a 6 -m 1800 .\unshad… Continue reading john the ripper tool – how to combine wordlist with incremental modes?