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Balloon password hashing library written in Go

25 pointsby stargraveover 8 years ago

2 comments

tptacekover 8 years ago
Here&#x27;s the official repository:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;henrycg&#x2F;balloon&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;henrycg&#x2F;balloon&#x2F;</a><p>A better link would be to the Balloon site itself:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crypto.stanford.edu&#x2F;balloon&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crypto.stanford.edu&#x2F;balloon&#x2F;</a><p>Balloon is interesting because:<p>* Its contributors include Dan Boneh, who has rock-star status in the crypto community.<p>* It&#x27;s designed to be easy to implement and to build on top of standard hash functions.<p>* It&#x27;s provably memory-hard.<p>All the password hashes are good. I use and like scrypt, but if you used Balloon and had me look at your code, I&#x27;d say, &quot;good for you for using Balloon&quot;. The authors warn people about their pre-production quality interface --- but if you&#x27;re in a (generally) safe language, password hashes are among the safer thing you can implement.
TheDongover 8 years ago
Please do not post a project unless it is interesting.<p>In this case, the project has 1 contributor, 1 commit, no real readme, and is a trivial amount of work (a couple of hundreds of lines of code).<p>Post a project after it has at least a token number of users and developers and informational value.<p>Linking to the stanford paper this was based on directly would have been a much better post.
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