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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.

5 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 2 stories, 3 comments · first 2016-02-19 · latest 2021-12-01

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    Ask HN: Where to ask for feedback about a cryptography related tool
    story by ciprian_craciun · 2021-12-01 · 6 comments
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    The scrypt encryption utility
    story by nodivbyzero · 2016-02-19 · 0 comments