diff --git a/doc/security/password_storage.md b/doc/security/password_storage.md index b5c021bf5de..f54e4022062 100644 --- a/doc/security/password_storage.md +++ b/doc/security/password_storage.md @@ -9,5 +9,5 @@ GitLab stores user passwords in a hashed format, to prevent passwords from being GitLab uses the [Devise](https://github.com/plataformatec/devise) authentication library, which handles the hashing of user passwords. Password hashes are created with the following attributes: - **Hashing**: the [bcrypt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bcrypt) hashing function is used to generate the hash of the provided password. This is a strong, industry-standard cryptographic hashing function. -- **Stretching**: Password hashes are [stretched](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_stretching) to harden against brute-force attacks. GitLab uses a streching factor of 10 by default. -- **Salting**: A [cryptographic salt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_(cryptography)) is added to each password to harden against pre-computed hash and dictionary attacks. Each salt is randomly generated for each password, so that no two passwords share a salt to further increase security. \ No newline at end of file +- **Stretching**: Password hashes are [stretched](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_stretching) to harden against brute-force attacks. GitLab uses a stretching factor of 10 by default. +- **Salting**: A [cryptographic salt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_(cryptography)) is added to each password to harden against pre-computed hash and dictionary attacks. Each salt is randomly generated for each password, so that no two passwords share a salt to further increase security.