Re: [cryptography] Designing a key stretching crypto that maximize use of WebCrypto?

2015-05-14 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 2:10 AM, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) - lists li...@infosecurity.ch wrote: Hi all, testing the lovely slowness of a pure scrypt implementation in javascript running into the browser, i was wondering anyone ever tried to think/design an cryptosystem for key stretching

Re: [cryptography] Designing a key stretching crypto that maximize use of WebCrypto?

2015-05-14 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) - lists
On 5/14/15 2:29 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: Just bike shedding, but I don't think that's fair to WebCrypto. WebCrypto provides a standard set of primitives, like hahses. But the selected hashes are designed to be fast, and not slow or memory hard. So comparing a WebCrypto PBKDF based on

Re: [cryptography] Designing a key stretching crypto that maximize use of WebCrypto?

2015-05-13 Thread David Leon Gil
I'm curious how PBKDF2 compares. On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 11:10 PM Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) - lists li...@infosecurity.ch wrote: Hi all, testing the lovely slowness of a pure scrypt implementation in javascript running into the browser, i was wondering anyone ever tried to think/design an

[cryptography] Designing a key stretching crypto that maximize use of WebCrypto?

2015-05-04 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) - lists
Hi all, testing the lovely slowness of a pure scrypt implementation in javascript running into the browser, i was wondering anyone ever tried to think/design an cryptosystem for key stretching purposes that leverage only existing webcrypto API (https://www.chromium.org/blink/webcrypto) with the