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RFC 7914
Title: The scrypt Password-Based Key Derivation
Function
Author: C. Percival, S. Josefsson
Status: Informational
Stream: IETF
Date: August 2016
Mailbox: cperciva@tarsnap.com,
simon@josefsson.org
Pages: 16
Characters: 29222
Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None
I-D Tag: draft-josefsson-scrypt-kdf-05.txt
URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7914
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17487/RFC7914
This document specifies the password-based key derivation function
scrypt. The function derives one or more secret keys from a secret
string. It is based on memory-hard functions, which offer added
protection against attacks using custom hardware. The document also
provides an ASN.1 schema.
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