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Password manager's hash choices (scrypt + sha256)
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Master password is a stateless password manager. It (deterministically) generates a password using a hash function, depending on your master password and the site name (also ...
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Is the Litecoin Scrypt hashing technique a threat to hashed passwords?
The Bitcoin alternative, Litecoin uses a different algorithm to protect the block chain, namely Scrypt (not Sha256).
Given that GPU accelerators exists, and ASICS are due to be released, does the ...
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User authentication + database encryption with same password
I'm working on a private project where I need to store a users financial data in a database. I'll encrypt this data using AES, and I'll be using scrypt to generate a AES encryption key from a more ...
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