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Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2018 13:53:27 -0400
From: Matt Weir <cweir@...edu>
To: passwords@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Bloom filter patent
The earliest known mention of this approach for passwords that I'm
aware in academic literature was done by Stuart Schechter, Cormac
Herley, and Michael Mitzenmacher, and published in USENIX Hotsec 2010,
which Royce already referenced.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/popularity-is-everything-a-new-approach-to-protecting-passwords-from-statistical-guessing-attacks/
Matt
On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 1:34 PM Royce Williams <royce@...ho.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 8:01 AM Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com> wrote:
>>
>> A couple of weeks ago, I learned that a company claims to have patented
>> the use of Bloom filter for checking whether a password is known to have
>> been compromised:
>>
>> hxxps://blog.shapesecurity.com/2018/09/26/look-ma-no-passwords-how-why-blackfish-uses-bloom-filters/
>> hxxps://www.shapesecurity.com/blackfish/
>>
>> "Blackfish doesn't store passwords
>>
>> The security of the Blackfish system itself was the most important
>> design consideration. Shape's patented design uses a Bloom filter,
>> enabling Blackfish to perform lookups of your user's credentials without
>> maintaining a database of compromised passwords."
>
>
> According to this cache of Passwords '14 proceedings, Blackfish was around at that time:
>
> https://books.google.com/books?id=iyXUCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA141&lpg=PA141&dq=%22passwords%22+%22bloom+filter%22
>
>
> Potential other prior art and/or informative links, not yet analyzed (some suggested to me off-list after a side query):
>
> https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/ce61/eef0efd3544c8df43324cbe4e05ba12a610a.pdf (Spafford, 1991 - "OPUS")
> https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1969&context=cstech (Spafford, 1992)
> https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/hotsec10/tech/full_papers/Schechter.pdf (Schecter, Herley, Mitzenmacher, 2010)
>
> https://github.com/krisives/bloomer-php (2015)
> https://gist.github.com/marcan/23e1ec416bf884dcd7f0e635ce5f2724
> https://www.bloomingpassword.fun/
> https://github.com/reedy/mw-password-bloom-filter
> https://github.com/jthomas/serverless-pwned-passwords (2017)
> https://cs.unc.edu/~fabian/courses/CS600.624/slides/bloomslides.pdf
> https://cry.github.io/nbp/
>
>
>
> Royce
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