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Comment by Shank

It...appears to be so? The infographic states that they "send a strongly hashed and encrypted copy of your username and password to Google." They explicitly mention that the username, not the password, is sent with a 3-byte hash prefix. They make no mention of prefixing the password in the infographic.

In the linked paper where they discuss the tradeoffs and take blinding into consideration. They note that the protocol is that a client calls CreateRequest(u, p) which creates a Req that is then sent explicitly to Google. It appears to me that they consider the merits of sending a hash-prefixed password, but do not make it explicitly clear that the final solution sends a hash-prefixed password. I think that they would want to explicitly say that only a partial hash is sent to Google, if that were the case?

parent Shank 7 years ago

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