Bug#713913: ITP: libscrypt -- scrypt shared library.

2013-06-23 Thread Micah Anderson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Micah Anderson * Package name: libscrypt Version : stable1 Upstream Author : Joshua Small * URL : http://www.lolware.net/libscrypt.html * License : Upstream still deciding Programming Lang: C Description : scryp

Bug#713913: ITP: libscrypt -- scrypt shared library.

2013-06-23 Thread Michael Stapelberg
Hi Micah, Micah Anderson writes: > Scrypt shared library, implementing the reference implementation of the > scrypt binary. Please improve this package description. It is unclear what scrypt is and why it’s great. -- Best regards, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists

Bug#713913: ITP: libscrypt -- scrypt shared library.

2013-06-24 Thread micah
Michael Stapelberg writes: > Hi Micah, > > Micah Anderson writes: >> Scrypt shared library, implementing the reference implementation of the >> scrypt binary. > Please improve this package description. It is unclear what scrypt is > and why it’s great. How about something like: The scrypt al

Bug#713913: ITP: libscrypt -- scrypt shared library.

2013-06-24 Thread Michael Stapelberg
Hi Micah, micah writes: > How about something like: > > The scrypt algorithm is a password-based key derivation function > designed to require large amounts of memory. This proof-of-work scheme > is intended to make it costly to perform large-scale hardware > attacks. > . > This package co