[fpc-pascal] is scrypt available?

[wkitty42 at windstream.net]

On 10/26/2015 06:28 PM, David W Noon wrote:
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> On Mon, 26 Oct 2015 16:54:16 -0400, Wkitty42 (wkitty42 at windstream.net)
> wrote about "Re: [fpc-pascal] is scrypt available?" (in
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>> no, i haven't heard of dcrypt... i'm specifically after scrypt for
>> securing passwords in a database...
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> So what you are really after is a hash, rather than streaming or block
> cryptography.

pretty much, yes...

> I use PostgreSQL, which offers MD5 hashing of passwords as a built-in,
> without me adding any of my own (or anybody else's) code to perform
> hashing.

sadly MD5 have been being cracked in little time for over a decade... that's why 
we're looking at other means... bcrypt came up first in the searched and then 
scrypt was pointed out along with bcrypt's failings... the question now is being 
able/willing to use someone else's code or to reinvent the wheel... if it were 
me, i'd use the other code if its license fits the app in question...

> HTH

it does... it is always good to hear from you, too :)

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