March 2023 – Entity Authentication – TLS Cryptography In-Depth

by Renetta Small
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Brief history of password-based authentication 2 – Entity Authentication

Modern operating systems such as Linux use hash functions to store the hash values of passwords rather than the passwords themselves. The rationale is that even if an attacker gets hold of a hashed password, they cannot use it to log in as the victim because the password system requires the plaintext password. Moreover, because…

by Renetta Small
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Brief history of password-based authentication – Entity Authentication

5.4.1 Brief history of password-based authentication Password-based authentication was introduced in the early 1960s when the first time-sharing systems, such as the famous Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS) and, later on, Multics, were developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A key problem the designers of these systems faced is that they – unlike earlier mainframe…