bcrypt VS scrypt

Compare bcrypt vs scrypt and see what are their differences.

bcrypt

Haskell bindings for bcrypt (by A1kmm)

scrypt

Haskell bindings to Colin Percival's scrypt implementation. (by informatikr)
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bcrypt scrypt
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0.0 0.0
over 6 years ago 4 months ago
C C
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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bcrypt

Posts with mentions or reviews of bcrypt. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning bcrypt yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

scrypt

Posts with mentions or reviews of scrypt. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning scrypt yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing bcrypt and scrypt you can also consider the following projects:

blake2 - A Haskell library providing BLAKE2

xxhash - Haskell implementation of the XXHash algorithm

PBKDF2 - WARNING: This package is broken. Do not use it.

ecdsa - ECDSA stuff in Haskell

ed25519 - Minimal ed25519 Haskell package, binding to the ref10 SUPERCOP implementation.

spake2 - SPAKE2 key exchange protocol for Haskell

cryptohash-sha256 - Fast, pure and practical SHA-256 implementation

cipher-aes - DEPRECATED - use cryptonite - a comprehensive fast AES implementation for haskell that supports aesni and advanced cryptographic modes.