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authorLEVAI Daniel <leva@ecentrum.hu>2013-12-06 08:06:24 +0700
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+The scrypt key derivation function was originally developed for use in the
+Tarsnap online backup system and is designed to be far more secure against
+hardware brute-force attacks than alternative functions such as PBKDF2 or
+bcrypt.
+
+This simple password-based encryption utility is available as a demonstration
+of the scrypt key derivation function. On modern hardware and with default
+parameters, the cost of cracking the password on a file encrypted by scrypt
+enc is approximately 100 billion times more than the cost of cracking the same
+password on a file encrypted by openssl enc; this means that a five-character
+password using scrypt is stronger than a ten-character password using openssl.