Hynek Schlawack • 1/6/2016

Storing Passwords in a Highly Parallelized World

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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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