RFC 7914: The scrypt Password-Based Key Derivation Function
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This document specifies the password-based key derivation function scrypt. The function derives one or more secret keys from a secret string. It is based on memory-hard functions, which offer added protection against attacks using custom hardware. The document also provides an ASN.1 schema.
Document record
- Document ID
- RFC7914
- Published
- August 2016
- Authors
- C. Percival; S. Josefsson
- Status
- INFORMATIONAL
- Stream
- IETF
- Area
- —
- Pages
- 16
- Also known as
- —
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