Alex Gaynor added the comment: OpenSSL supports scrypt
On Sep 7, 2016 12:28 PM, "Benjamin Peterson" <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote: > > Benjamin Peterson added the comment: > > Why are we adding scrypt and not argon2 anyway? > > On Wed, Sep 7, 2016, at 03:25, Christian Heimes wrote: > > > > Christian Heimes added the comment: > > > > Benjamin, what's your take on Alex's suggestion? > > > > <Crys> gutworth: Alex_Gaynor has asked me if hashlib.scrypt() can go into > > 2.7, too. It's a password-based KDF like hashlib.pbkdf2() but more secure > > than PBKDF2. It requires OpenSSL 1.1.0. > > <Alex_Gaynor> gutworth: I think it'd be good if this were approved, for > > the same reasons as PEP466 > > <Crys> contrary to PKBDF2 it doesn't make sense to have a pure-Python > > implementation. scrypt uses ChaCha20 cipher. I don't want to add a cipher > > to CPython core (possible legal issue) and it's not available in OpenSSL > > < 1.1.0. > > > > ---------- > > nosy: +benjamin.peterson > > versions: +Python 2.7 > > > > _______________________________________ > > Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> > > <http://bugs.python.org/issue27928> > > _______________________________________ > > ---------- > > _______________________________________ > Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> > <http://bugs.python.org/issue27928> > _______________________________________ > ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue27928> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com