pointfree VS Argon2

Compare pointfree vs Argon2 and see what are their differences.

pointfree

Maintenance of the pointfree Hackage package. (by bmillwood)

Argon2

Memory-hard scheme Argon2 (by khovratovich)
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pointfree Argon2
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5.4 10.0
7 months ago over 3 years ago
Haskell C
LicenseRef-OtherLicense GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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pointfree

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

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

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 pointfree and Argon2 you can also consider the following projects:

argon2 - Haskell bindings to libargon2 - the reference implementation of the Argon2 password-hashing function

pufferfish - Pufferfish2 password hashing scheme

cognimeta-utils - Utilities used by Perdure

bscrypt - A cache hard password hash/KDF

aeson-serialize - Functions for serializing a type that is an instance of ToJSON

postgresql-simple-sop

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

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

gotta-go-fast - A command line utility for practicing typing and measuring your WPM and accuracy.

hmac-bcrypt - The hmac-bcrypt password hashing function

hackertyper - "Hack" like a programmer in movies and games! Inspired by hackertyper.net