[fpc-pascal] is scrypt available?

Jonas Maebe jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be
Fri Oct 30 16:39:27 CET 2015


Frederic Da Vitoria wrote on Fri, 30 Oct 2015:

> Do you really need to compare them or simply to validate them? I ask
> because in one project I worked on for an insurance company, we were
> forbidden to store the passwords. We stored only a kind of checksum for
> them. With something like CRC32 or even a higher resolution algorithm, you

Never ever use CRC32 in a crypto context, it's completely unsuited and  
easily cracked. The subject of this thread is already about finding an  
implementation for scrypt, which is a (at this time considered) secure  
hashing algorithm.


Jonas



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