Paper 2015/136
Lyra2: Efficient Password Hashing with High Security against Time-Memory Trade-Offs
Marcos A. Simplicio Jr., Leonardo C. Almeida, Ewerton R. Andrade, Paulo C. F. dos Santos, and Paulo S. L. M. Barreto
Abstract
We present Lyra2, a password hashing scheme (PHS) based on cryptographic sponges. Lyra2 was designed to be strictly sequential (i.e., not easily parallelizable), providing strong security even against attackers that uses multiple processing cores (e.g., custom hardware or a powerful GPU). At the same time, it is very simple to implement in software and allows legitimate users to fine tune its memory and processing costs according to the desired level of security against brute force password-guessing. Lyra2 is an improvement of the recently proposed Lyra algorithm, providing an even higher security level against different attack venues and overcoming some limitations of this and other existing schemes.
Note: Updating the name of the article to match the version published at IEEE-TC. The eprint version is a much more detailed document (71 pages) when compared with the version published at IEEE-TC (13 pages)
Metadata
- Available format(s)
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PDF
- Category
- Cryptographic protocols
- Publication info
- Published elsewhere. Major revision. IEEE Transactions on Computers
- DOI
- 10.1109/TC.2016.2516011
- Keywords
- password hashingprocessing timememory usagecryptographic sponges.
- Contact author(s)
- eandrade @ larc usp br
- History
- 2020-01-20: last of 5 revisions
- 2015-02-27: received
- See all versions
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2015/136
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2015/136,
author = {Marcos A. Simplicio Jr. and Leonardo C. Almeida and Ewerton R. Andrade and Paulo C. F. dos Santos and Paulo S. L. M. Barreto},
title = {Lyra2: Efficient Password Hashing with High Security against Time-Memory Trade-Offs},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2015/136},
year = {2015},
doi = {10.1109/TC.2016.2516011},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/136}
}
