PBKDF2 VS scrypt

Compare PBKDF2 vs scrypt and see what are their differences.

PBKDF2

WARNING: This package is broken. Do not use it. (by silkapp)

scrypt

Haskell bindings to Colin Percival's scrypt implementation. (by informatikr)
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PBKDF2 scrypt
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1 16
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0.0 0.0
over 9 years ago 4 months ago
Haskell C
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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PBKDF2

Posts with mentions or reviews of PBKDF2. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning PBKDF2 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 PBKDF2 and scrypt you can also consider the following projects:

intel-aes - Haskell package for efficient AES encryption, including Intel AES NI support

blake2 - A Haskell library providing BLAKE2

blake3 - official implementations of the BLAKE3 cryptographic hash function

bcrypt - Haskell bindings for bcrypt

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

cipher-aes128 - Based on cipher-aes, but using a crypto-api interface and providing resulting IVs for each mode

spake2 - SPAKE2 key exchange protocol for Haskell

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

ecdsa - ECDSA stuff in Haskell