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tptacek
on March 19, 2012
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Don't use bcrypt
That's because PBKDF2 is the result of a standards process, and bcrypt is the result of the Unix process (bcrypt is the extaction of OpenBSD's password hash function from the late '90s).
marshray
on March 19, 2012
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Just to add to that, some common implementations of Bcrypt used by web apps are an extraction from the cracking tool John the Ripper.
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