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Is NIST's Cryptography Backdoored? (kerkour.com)
5 points by randomint64 32 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


Missing: Have the minor padding changes by NIST (=NSA) to Keccak for SHA-3 really not impacted security? https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/15727/what-are-th...


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

argon2?


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.




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