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Password hashes focused too long on computation time, neglecting memory usage. It's great to see some progress on that topic. You mean, like scrypt, seven year
by cperciva 11y ago
Password hashes focused too long on computation time, neglecting memory usage. It's great to see some progress on that topic.
You mean, like scrypt, seven years ago?
- JoachimSchipper 11y agoSince you're here: any comment on Argon2 versus your own scrypt? (I've been meaning to dive into it, but...)
- cperciva 11y agoIt's a minor improvement at best. As far as I'm concerned, the winner of the PHC was scrypt, in that the PHC demonstrated that nobody could do significantly better than scrypt.