OPAQUE: One of the Great Advancements in Cybersecurity?

Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE
5 min readMay 3, 2020

Why do we still store passwords on corporate servers?

Why do we still store hashed values of passwords on corporate servers?

Why do we still store hashed values and the salt on corporate servers?

Our fundamental problem is that Alice doesn’t want her password to be revealed to Eve, but Bob stores a hash of her password…

--

--

Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE

Professor of Cryptography. Serial innovator. Believer in fairness, justice & freedom. Based in Edinburgh. Old World Breaker. New World Creator. Building trust.