What is the difference between Scrypt and PBKDF2?
After reading these two resources I am wondering am I getting all the differences between Scrypt and PBKDF2. As far as I understood, the similarity is: both are password-based key derivation funct...
In 2018, what is the recommended hash to store passwords: bcrypt ...
Sep 10, 2018 · There are many questions about picking a hash function, including How to securely hash passwords? or Are there more modern password hashing methods than bcrypt and scrypt?, with …
Password manager's hash choices (scrypt + sha256) - Information ...
Nov 13, 2015 · Slow key-derivation functions like SCrypt, BCrypt or PBKDF2 are necessary, to protect relatively short and weak passwords, or to generate a key from such passwords (P assword- B ased- …
passwords - Is bcrypt better than scrypt - Information Security Stack ...
Scrypt is supposed to be "better" than bcrypt, but is is also much more recent, and that's bad (because "more recent" inherently implies "has received less scrutiny"). All these password hashing schemes …
key derivation - Why don't we use bcrypt and scrypt together ...
Everyone is comparing bcrypt to scrypt. Bcrypt is proven, lots of cryptoanalysis and no vulnerabilities so far, but uses very low memory. While scrypt uses a lot of memory, but it's too early in it...
Do any security experts recommend bcrypt for password storage?
It seems to me that using scrypt or bcrypt (changing the software) is easier than adding expensive (in terms of up front costs and energy costs) hardware to millions of servers. At a higher level, any key …
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Aug 9, 2016 · This answer from the BitCoin Stack Exchange site sums up the advantages of scrypt rather nicely: What features of scrypt () make Tenebrix GPU-resistant? In essence, scrypt is …
Scrypt as a KDF with one-time high-entropy input
I'm looking at using Scrypt as a KDF. Assume the following: the input will always be high-entropy random bytes generated by a CSPRNG the length of the input can vary from between 8 to 32 bytes …
How secure is Scrypt, really? - Information Security Stack Exchange
Aug 3, 2015 · I've been recently taking a hard look at the scrypt system for storing users' passwords. However, I'm rather worried about it's security because of things like Litecoin miners. Is scrypt secure …
If and why is it bad to scrypt a bcrypted password?
May 28, 2018 · There is one important detail to scrypt that makes it better than bcrypt and PBKDF2. And that is that it is designed to use a lot of RAM. Storage with random access is hard to implement on …