phc-discussions - Re: [PHC] "Why I Don't Recommend Scrypt"

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Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 12:12:48 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: discussions@...sword-hashing.net
Subject: Re: [PHC] "Why I Don't Recommend Scrypt"

On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 09:59:31PM -0700, Larry Bugbee wrote:
> A good compromise might be a set of "macro settings" to tune the algorithm for various likely machine configurations, workload, and levels of protection.  Each macro setting would define the values for each of the detailed tunable settings.

That's my intended approach for escrypt.

Alexander