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Is NIST's Cryptography Backdoored?

5 points| randomint64 | 7 days ago |kerkour.com

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theandrewbailey|7 days ago

> Why has no memory-hard password-hashing function been standardized?

argon2?

ahazred8ta|7 days ago

Argon2 has been standardized by the IETF, but has not been endorsed by NIST/FIPS. So USGov developers have to run a password through PBKDF2 before they can use Argon2.