hmac-bcrypt VS Argon2

Compare hmac-bcrypt vs Argon2 and see what are their differences.

hmac-bcrypt

The hmac-bcrypt password hashing function (by epixoip)

Argon2

Memory-hard scheme Argon2 (by khovratovich)
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hmac-bcrypt Argon2
1 2
59 195
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10.0 10.0
over 1 year ago over 3 years ago
C C
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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hmac-bcrypt

Posts with mentions or reviews of hmac-bcrypt. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-13.

Argon2

Posts with mentions or reviews of Argon2. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-13.
  • Password hashing and salting
    1 project | /r/Fedora | 8 Sep 2023
    I'm building a C++ code generator and have been having some problems figuring out password hashing and salting. Does anyone use C++ to do that? This repo looked interesting: khovratovich/Argon2: Memory-hard scheme Argon2 (github.com)
  • So I created a custom KDF. Bad idea?
    4 projects | /r/cryptography | 13 Feb 2023
    Regarding cache-hard KDFs, check out Argon2ds, Pufferfish2, hmac-bcrypt, and bscrypt.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing hmac-bcrypt and Argon2 you can also consider the following projects:

yescrypt - Password-based key derivation function and password hashing scheme building upon scrypt

pufferfish - Pufferfish2 password hashing scheme

c-hash - LiamLoads is a fast and secure 256-bit hashing function in pure C.

bscrypt - A cache hard password hash/KDF

postgresql-simple-sop

containers-unicode-symbols - Unicode alternatives for common functions and operators

aeson-json-ast - Integration layer for "json-ast" and "aeson"

load-balancing

infernu - Type inference and checking for a safer JavaScript.

lrucaching - Haskell implementation of an LRU cache