Don't wait to fix your password storage

Over the past few years, I have given a talk on Cryptography Pitfalls at a variety of conferences. One section of the talk covers the evolution of password storage and the various data breaches the last few years. In addition to covering the ways password storage has been done wrong, I also present the best solutions. Instead of recapping it again, take a look at Coda Hale’s blog post on the topic. A few brave souls will occasionally come up to me later and admit their company still stores passwords in a less than ideal way. There are many reasons for this, but they generally boil down to the fact that the software is old and developers just didn’t know any better when they wrote that part of the system. …