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... This document provides recommendations for the implementation of
password-based cryptography, covering the following aspects:
- key derivation ...
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In many applications of public-key cryptography, user security is
ultimately dependent on one or more secret text values or passwords ...
... conventional cryptosystem, however, some processing of the password
is required to perform cryptographic operations with it. Moreover, as
passwords are often chosen from a relatively small space, special
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A general approach to password-based cryptography, as described by
Morris and Thompson [8] for the protection of password ...
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Another approach to password-based cryptography is to construct key
derivation techniques that are relatively expensive, thereby
increasing the cost of exhaustive search ...
... encryption in PKCS #5 v1.5, and adopted here as well for the various
cryptographic operations. Thus, password-based key derivation as
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A salt in password-based cryptography has traditionally served the
purpose of producing a large set of keys corresponding to a given
password ...
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Password-based cryptography is generally limited in the security that
it can provide, particularly for methods ...
... bit limitation should not generally pose a practical
limitation in the case of password-based cryptography, since the
search space for a password ...
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identified as RSA Security Inc. Public-Key Cryptography Standards
(PKCS) in all material mentioning or referencing this document.
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... RSA Data
Security Inc.'s Public-Key Cryptography Standards meetings in
February and March 1991.
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The Public-Key Cryptography Standards are specifications produced by
RSA Laboratories in cooperation with secure systems developers
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... worldwide for the purpose of accelerating the deployment of public-
key cryptography. First published in 1991 as a result of meetings
with a small group of early adopters of public-key ...