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Do SSD's offer significant performance boost for Scrypt?
Being a memory intensive hash, I was wondering if SSD's offer any appreciable performance boost for brute force attacks.
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Why improvising your own Hash function out of existing hash functions is so bad
I'm afraid I'll have tomatoes thrown at me for asking this old question, but here goes.
After reading that cooking up your own password hash out of existing hashing functions is dangerous over and ...
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Is bcrypt better than scrypt [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Do any security experts recommend bcrypt for password storage?
I'm no security expert and do not pretend to be that's why I'm asking here. I write many PHP based ...
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What about combining pkdf2 with scrypt? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Would it make sense to use Bcrypt and PBKDF2 together?
How does the following password hashing scheme look to you?
iterations1 = scrypt iterations required to spend ...
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Recomended hash algorithm [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to securely hash passwords?
Do any security experts recommend bcrypt for password storage?
What would you choose between:
PBKDF2 SHA256 (270,000 iterations)
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Scrypt + Bcrypt = cascade hashing
I've read here that hashing with differents algorithms would be a good idea.
Can you confirm that?
In your experience, is it useful and safe? Does it entail any security holes?
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Is a HMAC-ed password is more secure than a bcrypt-ed or scrypt-ed password?
Given an option , which one should I choose , a HMAC for storing a password securely or a bcrypt or scrypt library?
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How should I choose a difficulty factor for my password hashing function?
Assuming that I'm doing password hashing properly and using bcrypt, scrypt or PBKDF2, how should I go about choosing an appropriate difficulty factor? i.e rounds for bcrypt, iterations for PBKDF2 and ...
