Open Sesame: The Password Hashing Competition and Argon2

Jos Wetzels

Paper 2016/104

Open Sesame: The Password Hashing Competition and Argon2

Jos Wetzels

Abstract

In this document we present an overview of the background to and goals of the Password Hashing Competition (PHC) as well as the design of its winner, Argon2, and its security requirements and properties.

Metadata

Available format(s): PDF
Category: Cryptographic protocols
Publication info: Preprint.
Keywords: Password Hashing Competition Argon2 Memory-Hard Hash Functions GPU-FPGA-ASIC password cracking
Contact author(s): a l g m wetzels @ gmail com
History: 2016-02-10: received
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2016/104
License: CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2016/104,
      author = {Jos Wetzels},
      title = {Open Sesame: The Password Hashing Competition and Argon2},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2016/104},
      year = {2016},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/104}
}