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LEVAI Daniel 9405732286 system/scrypt: Updated for version 1.2.0.
Signed-off-by: Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>
2015-08-11 23:25:22 +07:00
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scrypt.info system/scrypt: Updated for version 1.2.0. 2015-08-11 23:25:22 +07:00
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The scrypt key derivation function was originally developed for use in the
Tarsnap online backup system and is designed to be far more secure against
hardware brute-force attacks than alternative functions such as PBKDF2 or
bcrypt.

This simple password-based encryption utility is available as a demonstration
of the scrypt key derivation function. On modern hardware and with default
parameters, the cost of cracking the password on a file encrypted by scrypt
enc is approximately 100 billion times more than the cost of cracking the same
password on a file encrypted by openssl enc; this means that a five-character
password using scrypt is stronger than a ten-character password using openssl.