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It'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 be

It'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.

creshal 11y ago
yescrypt?
pbsd 11y ago
I would agree with you that scrypt's design was vindicated by the PHC, but I think calling it the winner is a bit much. I wouldn't want to go back to scrypt, given the choices available now. Incremental progress is still progress.