J4YC33 ❌<p>So, hear me out: </p><p>If instead of the current Hash+Salt based modality of password management, and given the relative lack of quantum complexity in how that all works for authentication, I have a proposition. </p><p>For any given password length N, N! hashes are taken for the password such that any substring starting with the first character and any arbitrary following sequential characters (D) to the length of the string (c0->cD) where D < N. This would require a quantum actor to deal with an element quantum mechanics is explicitly bad at dealing with: Certainty. </p><p>Instead of relying on the relatively low quantum complexity of the hashes, we extrapolate into another dimension and create an ordering of hashes that becomes a tangible certainty. Instead of having to find all of the hashes in a field (Low quantum complexity, High computational complexity), the operator must find a specific order from those hashes in the field (Extremely high quantum complexity, Moderate computational complexity).</p><p>It would also reduce the urgency of collision discoveries in hashing algorithms too. </p><p>Just a thought.</p><p><a href="https://sb17.space/tags/cryptography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cryptography</span></a> <a href="https://sb17.space/tags/cybersecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cybersecurity</span></a> <a href="https://sb17.space/tags/informationsecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>informationsecurity</span></a> <a href="https://sb17.space/tags/passwords" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>passwords</span></a> <a href="https://sb17.space/tags/hashingalgorithms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hashingalgorithms</span></a> <a href="https://sb17.space/tags/hash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hash</span></a> <a href="https://sb17.space/tags/notThatKindofHash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>notThatKindofHash</span></a></p>