scrypt: Stronger password hashing via sequential memory-hard functions.

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This package provides bindings to Colin Percival's scrypt implementation (http://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt.html). Scrypt is a key derivation function designed to be far more secure against hardware brute-force attacks than alternative functions such as PBKDF2 or bcrypt.

Details of the scrypt key derivation function are given in a paper by Colin Percival, Stronger Key Derivation via Sequential Memory-Hard Functions: http://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt/scrypt.pdf.


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Versions [RSS] 0.1, 0.1.1, 0.2.0, 0.2.1, 0.3.0, 0.3.1, 0.3.2, 0.3.3, 0.3.4, 0.3.5, 0.3.6, 0.4.0, 0.5.0
Dependencies base (>=4 && <5), base64-bytestring (>=0.1), bytestring (>=0.9), entropy (>=0.2) [details]
License BSD-3-Clause
Copyright Copyright 2011 Falko Peters
Author Falko Peters <[email protected]>
Maintainer Falko Peters <[email protected]>
Category Cryptography
Home page http://github.com/informatikr/scrypt
Bug tracker http://github.com/informatikr/scrypt/issues
Source repo head: git clone http://github.com/informatikr/scrypt
Uploaded by FalkoPeters at 2014-01-18T16:12:39Z
Distributions LTSHaskell:0.5.0, NixOS:0.5.0, Stackage:0.5.0
Reverse Dependencies 6 direct, 14 indirect [details]
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Readme for scrypt-0.5.0

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Welcome to scrypt

This is a Haskell library providing bindings to Colin Percival's scrypt implementation. Scrypt is a key derivation function designed to be far more secure against hardware brute-force attacks than alternative functions such as PBKDF2 or bcrypt.

Details of the scrypt key derivation function are given in a paper by Colin Percival, Stronger Key Derivation via Sequential Memory-Hard Functions: PDF.

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We are happy to receive bug reports, fixes, documentation enhancements, and other improvements.

Please report bugs via the github issue tracker.

Master git repository:

git clone git://github.com/informatikr/scrypt.git

Authors

This library is written and maintained by Falko Peters, [email protected].

Thanks to Thomas DuBuisson for suggesting the changes to make this package windows-compatible.