jeff deifik
Jeff Deifik has a MS in Cybersecurity and a CISSP and C|CISO credentials. His
interest in the intersection of cybersecurity and software development began
with white hat password cracking over 30 years ago. Career projects included
ten years at the first e-commerce system (from 1985-1995), the first orbiting
radio telescope satellite, the worlds most advanced pulse oxineter, and most
recently cybersecurity for government satellite ground control, balancing
sound cybersecurity with cost and schedule. He is currently employed at The
Aerospace Corp.
Session
The talk will cover some history about password hashing. A dump of 1576
descrypt passwords was decrypted over a period of 5 years. I will discuss tools used, wordlists, custom rules, CPU vs GPU tradeoff, and defenses against password cracking.