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  1. 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...

  2. 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 …

  3. passwords - Is bcrypt better than scrypt - Information Security Stack ...

    Again, SCrypt, being so new, isn't as widely accepted and so the number of well-vetted implementations is more limited. There's really only one reason to choose SCrypt over BCrypt and it's the reason that …

  4. 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- …

  5. 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 …

  6. Scrypt KDF cipher (scrypt CLI) - Cryptography Stack Exchange

    Jan 14, 2020 · 1 There is a scrypt cipher that is used for example by some cryptos like LItecoin for their mining algorithm. I never heard of scrypt. I know eg SHA-256 which is well analyzed and considered …

  7. 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 …

  8. How does ASIC cryptocoin miners affect the security of scrypt?

    Oct 17, 2014 · If the attacker can calculate hashes at many times the speed of the server, there is a weakness. ASIC miners for scrypt-based cryptocurrencies are very efficient at calculating scrypt …

  9. Salt value in scrypt algorithm - Cryptography Stack Exchange

    Apr 5, 2022 · When using a KDF such a scrypt, I believe the value of the salt should be random and change each time even on a per user basis (same user generating two different keys at different …

  10. Isn't using pbkdf2 + scrypt - Information Security Stack Exchange

    Apr 23, 2016 · Scrypt is built to withstand both. It is therefor best to use the strongest function. That said, NIST has stated that they advice PBKDF2 which technically is the weakest but it is probably good …