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CS 166: Information Security Password Cracking Prof. Tom Austin San José State University

How should you store users' passwords?

Reverse-lookup tables A cryptographic hash is irreversible. However, you can make a table of common hashes. MD5 hash value Password 5ebe2294ecd0e0f08eab7690d2a6ee69 "secret" 084e0343a0486ff05530df6c705c8bb4 "guest" 5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99 "password" 482c811da5d5b4bc6d497ffa98491e38 "password123" 0d107d09f5bbe40cade3de5c71e9e9b7 "letmein"

***WARNING*** The passwords.txt file is LARGE. It may kill your text editor. It is still small compared to what serious password crackers use.

Lab: Part 1 Download Cracker.java and passwords.txt from http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/~austin/cs166- spring18/labs/lab08/. What username/password combinations can you identify in input.txt?

Salted hashes • With lookup tables, a single hash allows you to check all passwords for matches. • Using salt values forces the attacker to check each password individually. Salt Password Hash 25c2f2345300e540d4f2b6a86002874e "AE" "secret" 675c17712c444cd7512ceadb29fde6cf "19" "secret" d0633e11f62c38ad06d13545908ee223 "E0" "secret" 5fb6bf90896adb43a2eb625d8e75f9f9 "0B" "secret"

Lab: Part 2 Download inputSalted.txt. These credentials include salt values used in the hash, created by: md5hash(salt+password) Extend Cracker.java to break as many of these passwords as you can. How much slower is this program?

Pepper Value • Salt values slow down an attacker, but an attacker can still get many passwords. • A pepper value is a secret value added to the hash input. • Adding a pepper value requires additional work from the attacker (until it is broken).

Modern Password Hashing • Newer algorithms use key stretching to increase the work required per hash. – The initial key is fed into an algorithm that outputs an enhanced key . • Examples: – Bcrypt – PBKDF2 (Password-Based Key Derivation Function 2)

One Key Stretching Algorithm String hashStretchKey( String password, String salt, String pepper, int workFactor) { String hash = ""; for (int i=0; i<workFactor; i++) { hash = hashFun(hash + salt + pepper + password); } return key; }

Lab: Part 3 Download inputSaltedPeppered.txt. These credentials include salt values used in the hash, along with an unknown pepper value , created by: md5hash(salt+pepper+password) Extend Cracker.java. The pepper value is a number between 1 and 10. How much slower is this program?