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Why I Don't Recommend Scrypt (2014)

6 pointsby voctorabout 7 years ago

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jandreseabout 7 years ago
What kind of threat model are you operating under where a 72 character password is insufficient?<p>Even if your password consists entirely of lowercase ASCII letters that&#x27;s still 7.5E101 possible combinations. 20 orders of magnitude more than the number of atoms in the observable universe.