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 …
passwords - Is bcrypt better than scrypt - Information Security …
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").
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
Should I use SHA-512 with many rounds or bcrypt/scrypt
Jul 8, 2017 · 1 I am currently using SHA-512 with 100000 rounds because of the easier implementation. The algorithm generates passwords from a service (e.g amazon) and a …
key derivation - Why does SHA-256 have any to do with scrypt ...
Dec 15, 2022 · 3 I was reading the Wikipedia page for scrypt because I wanted to learn more about it and I came across their pseudocode for the algorithm. What confused me was the …