Paper 2016/104 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2016/104 ↗

Open Sesame: The Password Hashing Competition and Argon2

Jos Wetzels
Abstract

In this document we present an overview of the background to and goals of the Password Hashing Competition (PHC) as well as the design of its winner, Argon2, and its security requirements and properties.

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Category
Cryptographic protocols
Publication info
Preprint.
History
2016-02-10: last updated
2016-02-10: published
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2016/104
License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2016/104,
      author = {Jos Wetzels},
      title = {Open Sesame: The Password Hashing Competition and Argon2},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2016/104},
      year = {2016},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/104}
}
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