SRP verifier strength

Tom Holroyd tomh at po.crl.go.jp
Wed Apr 4 14:46:38 EST 2001


> ... SRP with a 4096 bit prime is getting close to the level of OpenBSD
> Blowfish hashes ...

Sorry for the multiple post, but I just wanted to remind folks that this
attack assumes that your server has already been rooted and your password
database stolen -- during normal SRP operation a password of "green" is
much, much stronger than this.




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