ed25519 vs scrypt

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ed25519		scrypt
	Project
15	Mentions	-
21	Stars	16
-	Growth	-
4.5	Activity	0.0
5 months ago	Latest Commit	5 months ago
C	Language	C
MIT License	License	BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

ed25519

Posts with mentions or reviews of ed25519. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-13.

Joining ChatCraft.org
6 projects | dev.to | 13 Jan 2024

The first step was to generate an ed25519 - ssh key for my Github account.
GitLab: Authentication and Signing with SSH Keys
1 project | dev.to | 30 Sep 2023

From the GitLab documentation, ED25519 keys are recommended, as they are more secure and performant than RSA keys, according to the book Practical Cryptography With Go.
The Algorand Community Study Group just had our first meeting yesterday. We read Chapter 15 Elliptic Curve Cryptography in A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography (Boneh, Shoup). Are you interested in learning applied cryptography? Which topic should we cover next? Come join us!
1 project | /r/AlgorandOfficial | 8 May 2023

Correction regarding Ed25519: The Edwards Digital Signature Algorithm (EdDSA) https://ed25519.cr.yp.to/ was developed by a team including Daniel J. Bernstein, Niels Duif, Tanja Lange, Peter Schwabe, and Bo-Yin Yang. The first paper came out in 2011.
[Sysadmin] Quel est le niveau de sécurité de la clé ed25519 par rapport à la clé ecdsa ou rsa pour les clés ssh ?
1 project | /r/enfrancais | 3 Mar 2023

Les concepteurs de l'algorithme estimation :
Have you been hacked? Tell your story
1 project | /r/homelab | 22 Nov 2022
How SHA-256 Works Step-By-Step
1 project | /r/programming | 1 Oct 2022

Ed25519
Обзор Aptos SDK
2 projects | dev.to | 5 Sep 2022
Руководство по Созданию подписанной транзакции
1 project | dev.to | 1 Sep 2022
Концепции APTOS | Учетные записи
1 project | dev.to | 30 Aug 2022

Ed25519 для транзакций с одной подписью, и
Is your SSH key still safe?
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Apr 2022

> For the ED25519, the key size should be 256 or larger.
This tripped my bullshit filter. ED25519 is 256 bits always: https://ed25519.cr.yp.to/

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 ed25519 and scrypt you can also consider the following projects:

secp256k1 - Haskell bindings for secp256k1 library

blake2 - A Haskell library providing BLAKE2

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

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

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

bcrypt - Haskell bindings for bcrypt

servant-hmac-auth - Servant authentication with HMAC

spake2 - SPAKE2 key exchange protocol for Haskell

lol - Λ ⚬ λ: Functional Lattice Cryptography

ecdsa - ECDSA stuff in Haskell