phc-discussions - Re: [PHC] IETF draft

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Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 17:45:30 +0000
From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@....freebsd.dk>
To: discussions@...sword-hashing.net,
        Dmitry Chestnykh <dmitry@...ingrobots.com>
Subject: Re: [PHC] IETF draft

In message <CAJ_AKWhbh5_VgNg1AU6YCm6P5KA_PPuL9imHW8JcN8wFFvgEjw@...l.gmail.com>
, Dmitry Chestnykh writes:
>Basically,
>
>output = hash( rsa_encrypt( hash( salt+password ), public_key ) )

The proposal would be more readily understandable if he had expressed
it like I did back in 1994:

	output = slow_hash(site_key + salt + password)

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