On 22 April 2012 06:33, Marsh Ray <[email protected]> wrote: > On 04/22/2012 05:07 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: >> >> >> Aren't programs generally written to be fast and take advantage of >> things like locality of reference? I'd like to see a design that >> complete violates the design principal. Iterations in a KDF would >> then be icing on the cake. >> >> STRONGER KEY DERIVATION VIA SEQUENTIAL MEMORY-HARD FUNCTIONS, >> www.bsdcan.org/2009/schedule/attachments/87_scrypt.pdf. > > > Well, what about Scrypt doesn't meet your needs? > > Off the top of my head: > > * It doesn't have an RFC-type spec or reference implementation.
https://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt/scrypt-1.1.6.tgz ? > * It probably doesn't parallelize on the defender's multi-core CPUs quite as > well as it will on a botnet, but you specifically asked for a > cache-thrashing function. -- Eitan Adler _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list [email protected] http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
