[fpc-pascal] is scrypt available?
wkitty42 at windstream.net
wkitty42 at windstream.net
Fri Oct 30 18:06:50 CET 2015
On 10/30/2015 12:06 PM, Jonas Maebe wrote:
>
> Frederic Da Vitoria wrote on Fri, 30 Oct 2015:
>
>> 2015-10-30 16:39 GMT+01:00 Jonas Maebe <jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be>:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> My point is precisely that in this situation, there would be nothing to
>> crypt. Just check validity.
>
> Yes, that's what *secure* hash functions are for. CRC32 is not secure in any
> way. scrypt and bcrypt are secure.
this is what brought me here looking for SCrypt code... i had already found that
BCrypt is easily cracked ;)
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