scrypt
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In cryptography, scrypt (pronounced "ess crypt") is a password-based key derivation function created by Colin Percival in March 2009, originally for the Tarsnap online backup service. The algorithm was specifically designed to make it costly to perform large-scale custom hardware attacks by requiring large amounts of memory. In 2016, the scrypt algorithm was published by IETF as RFC 7914. A simplified version of scrypt is used as a proof-of-work scheme by a number of cryptocurrencies, first implemented by an anonymous programmer called ArtForz in Tenebrix and followed by Fairbrix and Litecoin
Key facts
- Cryptographic hash function.name
- scrypt
- Cryptographic hash function.designers
- Colin Percival
- Cryptographic hash function.publish date
- 2009
- Cryptographic hash function.digest size
- variable
- Cryptographic hash function.block size
- variable
- Cryptographic hash function.rounds
- variable
- Software.name
- scrypt encryption utility
- Software.developer
- Colin Percival
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8 sectionsContents
- Introduction
- Overview
- Algorithm
- Cryptocurrency uses
- Utility
- See also
- References
- External links
In cryptography, scrypt (pronounced "ess crypt") is a password-based key derivation function created by Colin Percival in March 2009, originally for the Tarsnap online backup service. The algorithm was specifically designed to make it costly to perform large-scale custom hardware attacks by requiring large amounts of memory. In 2016, the scrypt algorithm was published by IETF as RFC 7914. A simplified version of scrypt is used as a proof-of-work scheme by a number of cryptocurrencies, first implemented by an anonymous programmer called ArtForz in Tenebrix and followed by Fairbrix and Litecoin soon after.
== Introduction ==