On 11/02/2010 09:58 PM, Mark Allums wrote:
On 11/2/2010 9:40 PM, Jesús M. Navarro wrote:Hi, lee: On Tuesday 02 November 2010 21:26:54 lee wrote:On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 06:29:03PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
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The way to do it is to have a record in your password db of the hashes of each user's last N passwords.Not a serious expert, but: Bad policy? (Keeping unnecessary histories of *anything* would tend to weaken security. Wouldn't it?)
The key words are "unnecessary" and "history". a) Yes, it's necessary. b) You do *not* keep a history of the *passwords*. You keep a history of the one-way *hashes*. -- Seek truth from facts.