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Message-ID: <CA+hr98G1k3XhsR8GB7tMOgOSQE8nJCXqKg3COt7P-qyP0ciqxw@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 16:35:12 +0200 From: Krisztián Pintér <pinterkr@...il.com> To: "discussions@...sword-hashing.net" <discussions@...sword-hashing.net> Subject: Re: [PHC] Competition process On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 4:19 PM, Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com> wrote: > yescrypt is being criticized primarily for being overly(?) complex, and this is a valid criticism. simplicity is not just convenience in crypto. it is about implementation correctness, verifiability, ability to reason about the algorithm itself in terms of math. > Makwa's delegation is probably not something that could reasonably be > added you really need to design a primitive from the ground up with delegation in mind. in fact i would be very pleased to see a makwa-like number theoretic kdf that has high (and tunable) memory requirement, and a blinding option. that would be the perfect candidate in my opinion.
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