Hynek Schlawack • 1/6/2016

Storing Passwords in a Highly Parallelized World

This technical article discusses why bcrypt is no longer the best recommendation for password hashing due to advances in parallelized cracking hardware (GPUs, ASICs). It explains the need for memory-hard algorithms, covers scrypt's limitations, and introduces Argon2 as the current standard, winner of the Password Hashing Competition. It concludes with practical implementation notes, including a Python library for Argon2.

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#Password Security #Password Hashing #Bcrypt