Robert Morris & Ken Thompson (1979)
Communications of the ACM, 22(11), 594-597.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/359168.359172
Abstract. The paper that introduced password salting and one-way hashing to Unix. Analyses why plaintext password storage fails and how a slow cryptographic hash plus per-user salt defeats dictionary and rainbow-table attacks.
Tags: security authentication foundational
