Dynamic Calculation of Password Salts for Improved Resilience towards Password Cracking Algorithms

Abstract

Passwords have been an integral part of our lives from the dawn of the internet and keeping them secure has been of paramount importance. Each attempt to secure our digital lives has been met with increased complexity and scope in attacks to compromise security measures. This paper explores a novel methodology to calculate password salts by using the password itself and multiple texts to generate lookup values into a text corpus that is then used to calculate salt values dynamically and on the fly. The proposed method allows an authentication system to use salts for password storage without storing the salts in a database where they might be compromised.