> Really? Could you explain why an authentication scheme whose primary claim > to fame is > its high computational cost is a good choice for a database system that needs > to do > hundreds of authentications per minute or second?
I've been taught that the hashing function for passwords should be "slow". Hence it makes brute force attacks harder, because the attacker needs to wait for each attempt. -- Mgr. Jiří Činčura Independent IT Specialist ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel