bcrypt is a password-hashing function designed by Niels Provos and David Mazières, based on the Blowfish cipher and presented at USENIX in 1999. Besides...
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winner of the Password Hashing Competition in 2015 bcrypt – blowfish-based password-hashing function bcrypt – blowfish-based cross-platform file encryption...
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2015-12-31. "Bcrypt - Blowfish File Encryption" Archived 2015-08-29 at the Wayback Machine bcrypt file encryption program homepage (bcrypt.sourceforge...
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defghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz". bcrypt hashes are designed to be used in the same way as traditional crypt(3) hashes, but bcrypt's alphabet is in a different...
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rejected bcrypt (scheme 2) support since it isn't approved by NIST. A public domain crypt_blowfish library is available for systems without bcrypt. It has...
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generate password hashes. A suitable password hashing function, such as bcrypt, is many orders of magnitude better than a naive function like simple MD5...
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algorithms have been designed specifically for this purpose, including bcrypt, scrypt and, more recently, Lyra2 and Argon2 (the latter being the winner...
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Provos contributed to the OpenBSD operating system, where he developed the bcrypt adaptive cryptographic hash function. He is the author of numerous software...
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attacker, but not impractical with terabyte hard drives. The SHA2-crypt and bcrypt methods—used in Linux, BSD Unixes, and Solaris—have salts of 128 bits. These...
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Mike Engelhardt (original author of LTspice); Niels Provos (creator of Bcrypt); and Sid Meier (creator of video games series Civilization). Michigan alumni...
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