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Increase SCRAM iteration count

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    • Type: Icon: Improvement Improvement
    • Resolution: Unresolved
    • Priority: Icon: Major - P3 Major - P3
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    • Affects Version/s: 3.2.5
    • Component/s: Security
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    • Server Security

      As CPU processing power goes up so should our default SCRAM iteration count. The new SCRAM-SHA-2 RFC recommends 15k iterations so we should increase it to at least that.

      Note that the authentication delay could be substantial for slow machines.

            Assignee:
            backlog-server-security [DO NOT USE] Backlog - Security Team
            Reporter:
            andreas.nilsson Andreas Nilsson
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