The Password Hashing Competition was an open competition announced in 2013 to select one or more password hash functions that can be recognized as a recommended...

In 2013 a Password Hashing Competition was announced to choose a new, standard algorithm for password hashing. On 20 July 2015 the competition ended and...

circuits. In 2013 a long-term Password Hashing Competition was announced to choose a new, standard algorithm for password hashing, with Argon2 chosen as the...

derivation function that was selected as the winner of the 2015 Password Hashing Competition. It was designed by Alex Biryukov, Daniel Dinu, and Dmitry Khovratovich...

the Secure Hash Standard. The NIST competition has inspired other competitions such as the Password Hashing Competition. Submissions were due October 31...

other password hashing schemes: Catena, Lyra2, yescrypt and Makwa. Another alternative is Balloon hashing, which is recommended in NIST password guidelines...

random data fed as an additional input to a one-way function that hashes data, a password or passphrase. Salting helps defend against attacks that use precomputed...

bcrypt is a password-hashing function designed by Niels Provos and David Mazières. It is based on the Blowfish cipher and presented at USENIX in 1999....

based on Scrypt. crypt (C) Lyra2 Password hashing Password Hashing Competition "Changes/yescrypt as default hashing method for shadow". Retrieved 2023-10-10...

highly parallel hardware to speed up key testing. In 2013, a Password Hashing Competition was held to select an improved key stretching standard that would...

of HMAC in password-hashing scenarios: it has been demonstrated that it's possible to find a long ASCII string and a random value whose hash will be also...

software portal Argon2 – winner of the Password Hashing Competition in 2015 bcrypt – blowfish-based password-hashing function bcrypt – blowfish-based cross-platform...

the rsync protocol (prior to version 3.0.0). MD4 is used to compute NTLM password-derived key digests on Microsoft Windows NT, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10 and 11...

user is hashed and compared with the stored hash. A password reset method is required when password hashing is performed; original passwords cannot be...

created during the Password Hashing Competition. The format is defined as: $<id>[$<param>=<value>(,<param>=<value>)*][$<salt>[$<hash>]] where id: an identifier...

plaintext of user passwords, an access control system stores a hash of the password. When a user requests access, the password they submit is hashed and compared...

to compute the hashes using a key derivation function that adds a "salt" to each password before hashing it, with different passwords receiving different...

universal hashing. Intrinsically keyed hash algorithms such as SipHash are also by definition MACs; they can be even faster than universal-hashing based MACs...

Balloon hashing is a key derivation function presenting proven memory-hard password-hashing and modern design. It was created by Dan Boneh, Henry Corrigan-Gibbs...

used content management systems were reported to still use MD5 for password hashing. In 1996, a flaw was found in the design of MD5. While it was not deemed...

cryptographic hash function designed by Ross Anderson and Eli Biham in 1995 for efficiency on 64-bit platforms. The size of a Tiger hash value is 192 bits...

is a password hashing scheme (PHS) that can also function as a key derivation function (KDF). It gained recognition during the Password Hashing Competition...

SHA-3: A hash function formerly called Keccak, chosen in 2012 after a public competition among non-NSA designers. It supports the same hash lengths as...

means they know the internal state of the hashing function at that point. It is then trivial to initialize a hashing algorithm at that point, input the last...

9844053f456b4b41e8aa78bbe5c12957bb Argon2, the winner of the Password Hashing Competition, uses BLAKE2b Chef's Habitat deployment system uses BLAKE2b for...

negligible. When cracking passwords, this method is very fast when used to check all short passwords, but for longer passwords other methods such as the...

as a password during hashing with a cryptographic hash function. This value differs from a salt in that it is not stored alongside a password hash, but...

"signs of weakness". It is deprecated in favor of SHA-256 and other strong hashing algorithms. Nevertheless, as of 2014[update], it remained in use in public...

plaintext passwords, computer systems store hashes thereof; then, when a user logs in, the system passes the given password through a cryptographic hash function...

suggestions, including using Chacha20 instead of Salsa20 and using a universal hashing based MAC for performance. The outcome of this process was the adoption...