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Even so this doesn't account for another advantage of bcrypt: its "de-optimized" key scheduler, which adds to the difficulty of cracking the hash.
by llambda 15y ago
Even so this doesn't account for another advantage of bcrypt: its "de-optimized" key scheduler, which adds to the difficulty of cracking the hash.
- cperciva 15y agoThe key scheduler in bcrypt is a red herring. I don't know what was going through their minds when they wrote that. They could have used a larger number of iterations and gotten the same result. The only reason why bcrypt is better than PBKDF2 is that blowfish needs a large circuit to compute.