That table can be found in the paper "Stronger Key Derivation via Sequential Memory-Hard Functions"[0] by Colin Percival[1]. This is the paper that introduces e

That table can be found in the paper "Stronger Key Derivation via Sequential Memory-Hard Functions"[0] by Colin Percival[1]. This is the paper that introduces explains and introduced scrypt. The costs are based on what was considered 'modern hardware' in 2009. [0]: https://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt/scrypt.pdf https://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt/scrypt.pdf [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cperciva https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cperciva