Hi,
I do not think these limits are "conservative".
You gain very little by raising them. Better just
use a good passphrase.
Regards,
Arno
On Mon, Oct 04, 2021 at 00:30:13 CEST, Dmitry Dmitry wrote:
> Hi,
> I am wondering if there are objective reasons for such conservative
> **upper** **hard** limits for Argon?
> } else if (!strcmp(kdf, "argon2i") || !strcmp(kdf, "argon2id")) {
> limits->max_iterations = UINT32_MAX;
> limits->max_memory = 4*1024*1024; /* 4GiB */
> limits->max_parallel = 4;
> }
> (well, apart from UINT32_MAX, which makes sense, kind of)
> Just to reiterate, I am not talking about minimum values, or default
> values. The question is about upper limits.
> P.S.
> I was personally thinking about using ~32 threads and ~128GiB of RAM as
> KDF parameters...
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