← LAB 06 INFORMATIONPASSWORD FORENSIC ARCHIVE

Fixed fictional examples only. This is not a cracker, breach lookup, or credential-testing tool.

THE PASSWORD GRAVEYARD

01 · PLAINTEXT GRAVE

ARCHIVE.DB
alice | sunshine
bob   | dragon
carol | museum123

The sealed archive is fictional.

02 · HASHING & UNIQUE SALTS

PASSWORD→TOY HASH→STORED VALUE

Try the comparison.

Salt is not secret. Unique salts stop identical passwords producing universal identical stored values.

TINY FIXED LOOKUP SHELF: SUN · MOON · STAR · COMET
No arbitrary lists, cracking, or rate claims appear here.

03 · FAST VS SLOW WORK MACHINE

FAST GENERAL HASH
1 unitPASSWORD HASH / KDF
2500 teaching units

Normalized teaching units—not real timings. Argon2id, scrypt, bcrypt, and PBKDF2 need deployment-specific settings.

04 · PASSWORD REUSE DOMINO

FORUM→MAIL→SHOP

One fictional reused password links these services.

05 · MODERN VAULT AHEAD

UNIQUE PASSWORDS · PASSWORD MANAGER · UNIQUE SALT · MEMORY/TIME-COST PASSWORD HASHING · MFA / PASSKEYS WHERE APPROPRIATE · RATE LIMITING · SECURE RECOVERY

Password storage is one part of authentication security. Old graves are behind you; defense is a system.