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SCrypt is a key derivation function (KDF) based on the concept of sequential memory-hard functions mostly used for password hashing.

SCrypt is a key derivation function (KDF) based on the concept of sequential memory-hard functions mostly used for password hashing.

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Login page in Asp.Net -IMPROVEMENT

I recently did a registration and login page in ASP.NET and I hashed the password using SCRYPT and saved it to the database. I feel like my project is not complete, I would like to add something unique to it(something related to cryptography). What…
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Cisco IOS password types - relative security

Cisco has finally gotten around to offering two relatively modern ways to store passwords in configuration files: PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256 with 20,000 iterations Scrypt with N=16384, r=1, p=1 My question for the security gods is, given the two…
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Scrypt algorithm output doesen't match up as expected

I am trying to get my head around the scrypt algorithm output. On https://litecoin.info/Block_hashing_algorithm the author gets the scrypt encryption result for the…
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Why does Node's crypto module limit keys and IVs to 16 bytes?

So I've been writing a simple command-line program for encrypting and decrypting files with Node's built-in crypto module: if( deciphered_object.multibase_digest != null ){ ciphered_object.multibase_digest =…
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