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...
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 …
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 …
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- …
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 …
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 …
Has scrypt gone through enough testing to be considered secure?
Sep 4, 2019 · Yes. Scrypt can be used securely. There are two sources of potential security problems: weaknesses in the algorithm design and errors in the implementation. The design of scrypt is …
How to make a function which produces a hash of variable length?
Jun 10, 2024 · If we stick to a single standard algorithm available in Python without add-on, we can use scrypt (available as hashlib.scrypt), which includes memory-hard key stretching, and has variable …
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 …
FIPS compliant passwords protection/encryption?
Apr 9, 2021 · Do FIPS 140-2 or related documens specify how to protect users' passwords with encryption? Are there any well known schemas for storing passwords in lossless manner and lossy …