Glossary: Cryptography and PKI
Key stretching
Also written: stretching
Running password hashing through thousands or millions of rounds, so each guess takes a noticeable fraction of a second. That turns billions of guesses a second into thousands.
Glossary: Cryptography and PKI
Also written: stretching
Running password hashing through thousands or millions of rounds, so each guess takes a noticeable fraction of a second. That turns billions of guesses a second into thousands.