Openssh use enumeration

[Darren Tucker]

On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 1:48 PM, Darren Tucker <dtucker at zip.com.au> wrote:
[...]
> Well if there are no accounts with a valid salt then there's also no
> valid account to compare the timing of invalid accounts against.
> Worst case that'd be DES crypt vs empty password and I'm not sure if
> you'd be able to pick that out of the background crypto.

I just measured the speed of DES crypt on a somewhat elderly 2.1GHz
Xeon X3210 at about 7 microseconds.  Good luck picking that out of
Diffie-Hellman exchange over a network.

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Darren Tucker (dtucker at zip.com.au)
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