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Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 13:40:13 +0000
From: Jean-Philippe Aumasson <jeanphilippe.aumasson@...il.com>
To: discussions@...sword-hashing.net, Thomas Pornin <pornin@...et.org>
Subject: Re: [PHC] Interest in specification of modular crypt format
@Thomas: would you like to start drafting a specs for the hashes encoding?
On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 8:40 PM Thomas Pornin <pornin@...et.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 06, 2015 at 05:20:10PM +0100, Hugo Landau wrote:
> > Now that a winner has been announced, I wondered if the PHC has any
> > interest in specifying a modular crypt format to supplement the final
> > specification for Argon2?
>
> My opinion is that such a specification should really exist, and,
> preferably, be included right into the "official specification" (maybe
> as an appendix) and into the reference implementation(s) as well.
> Lack of a definite, standard format indeed always leads to a plethora
> of incompatible formats that cause severe headaches down the line
> (e.g. when switching implementations but reusing an existing database
> of hashed passwords).
>
> If the Argon2 authors do not have time for that, I can contribute the
> specification and code if needed (I have not written anything to that
> effect yet for Argon2, but I did for Makwa, so I believe I can do that
> job properly).
>
>
> --Thomas Pornin
>
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