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Recommended password hashing algorithms #133

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tarcieri opened this issue Feb 9, 2021 · 1 comment
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Recommended password hashing algorithms #133

tarcieri opened this issue Feb 9, 2021 · 1 comment

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tarcieri commented Feb 9, 2021

Following up from RustCrypto/meta#10, this is an issue for discussion potentially adding "recommended" badges to certain algorithms in this repo:

Recommended: Yes
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tarcieri commented Feb 9, 2021

I'd vote for recommending argon2 and scrypt.

I think it's worth considering NOT recommending sha-crypt, as it does a poor job of resisting cracking attacks compared to all of the others. Its main use should be legacy interop with libcrypt.

dns2utf8 pushed a commit to dns2utf8/password-hashes that referenced this issue Jan 24, 2023
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Merge pull request RustCrypto#133 from RustCrypto/new-mac
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mac: split out NewMac trait
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