[cryptography] NIST Workshop on Elliptic Curve Cryptography Standards

2015-05-09 Thread ianG
Workshop on Elliptic Curve Cryptography Standards June 11-12, 2015 Agenda now available! The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will host a Workshop on Elliptic Curve Cryptography Standards at NIST headquarters in Gaithersburg, MD on June 11-12, 2015. The workshop will

Re: [cryptography] Javascript scrypt performance comparison

2015-05-09 Thread Krisztián Pintér
coderman (at Saturday, May 9, 2015, 12:49:22 PM): ... use pseudorandom indexing to access the data, also based on the password ... it is essential to the algorithm, and can not be written in a side channel safe way. even paired with a separate pseudo-random sequence? both executed in

Re: [cryptography] Javascript scrypt performance comparison

2015-05-09 Thread coderman
On 5/9/15, Krisztián Pintér pinte...@gmail.com wrote: ... create a huge block of pseudorandom data derived from the password, and then use pseudorandom indexing to access the data, also based on the password... this second phase is what we are talking about here. it is essential to the

Re: [cryptography] Javascript scrypt performance comparison

2015-05-09 Thread Krisztián Pintér
coderman (at Saturday, May 9, 2015, 3:56:06 AM): The reality is: bcrypt, scrypt, and most PHC finalists use password dependent memory lookups, and thus are not cache-timing safe... In typical scenarios, this does not matter. In some, it does. has there been consideration of a processor