phc-discussions - Re: [PHC] PHC: survey and benchmarks

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Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 20:15:44 -0700
From: Tony Arcieri <bascule@...il.com>
To: "discussions@...sword-hashing.net" <discussions@...sword-hashing.net>
Subject: Re: [PHC] PHC: survey and benchmarks

On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 7:33 PM, Steve Thomas <steve@...tu.com> wrote:

> Yeah I saw that too it kind of invalidates most of their findings. Since
> we know
> they didn't pick the parameters correctly.
>

FWIW Frank Denis tried to "normalize" these parameters in the libsodium
wrapper to scrypt:

https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/blob/master/src/libsodium/crypto_pwhash/scryptsalsa208sha256/pwhash_scryptsalsa208sha256.c#L18

I think this is an interesting idea and food for thought for the PHC
function signature.

-- 
Tony Arcieri

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