phc-discussions - Re: [PHC] Argon2 improvement thread

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Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 03:02:52 +0100
From: Samuel Neves <sneves@....uc.pt>
To: discussions@...sword-hashing.net
Subject: Re: [PHC] Argon2 improvement thread

On 23-07-2015 02:43, Solar Designer wrote:
> Do you think we should produce a specification of MAXFORM on its own,
> not merely referring to yescrypt's specification of pwxform with the
> above two parameters fixed at 1, before we decide on accepting it for
> Argon2 tweak?  I'd think the above would be sufficient for the
> decision-making, with the concrete specification of MAXFORM on its own
> only needed as part of a revision of the tweaked Argon2 specification.

The specific parametrization, with reference to pwxform, is good enough for me. I just wanted it to be spelled out. Thanks.