To be fair, more iterations is a good idea. I'll try and take a look this
evening and see if i can figure something out.
On Nov 7, 2013 4:04 PM, "saadmufti" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yes, I tried that and that worked!!! So you were right. Also stepped
> throught
> the code and verified:
>
> 1) the authentication info getting cached is the hashed version
> 2) all the caching is saving is getting the info from disk, it is still
> hashing the passed in auth info all over again to compare to the info it
> gets from the cache
>
> So yes reducing the number of iterations immensely speeds this up, I
> vaguely
> remember now that I used 500000 a couple of months ago after reading some
> blog post that recommended upping the iterations for more security. Shows
> you the perils of following advice without completely understanding.
>
> What would be ideal would be if the caching would work like how you
> suggested, that is it would cache the plaintext after comparing and use
> that
> for the future as long as the cache entry existed. But right now it does
> the
> opposite, it caches the hashed info and hashes the plaintext
> username/password passed in and then does the comparison.
>
> Any quick ideas on how to tweak this to do what you suggested? Prefereably
> not involving heavy duty subclassing etc. :-)
>
> Thanks for all your help.
>
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> Saad
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