rfc-7914

The scrypt Password-Based Key Derivation Function

C. Percival, S. Josefsson

date2016-08 streamIETF wgnon working group statusINFORMATIONAL pages16 canonicalhttps://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7914 doi10.17487/RFC7914 errataview

This document specifies the password-based key derivation function scrypt. The function derives one or more secret keys from a secret string. It is based on memory-hard functions, which offer added protection against attacks using custom hardware. The document also provides an ASN.1 schema.