On Tue, 6 Sep 2016, David Coppa wrote:

> Il 6 settembre 2016 14:56:32 CEST, Filippo Valsorda <m...@filippo.io> ha 
> scritto:
> >Hello,
> >
> >I recently had the occasion to dive into the softraid crypto code [1]
> >and was quite pleased with the cleanliness of it all. However, I found
> >surprising the default value of 8k PBKDF2 rounds.
> >
> >I know it is easy to override and I should have RTFM, but I (naively,
> >I'll admit) assumed OpenBSD would pick very robust defaults, erring on
> >the conservative side. Is it maybe time to bump it up, or pick it based
> >on a quick machine benchmark?
> >
> >If there's consensus I might also provide a patch for the live
> >benchmark
> >option.
> 
> yes, autodetection of a sensible value would be cool...

using bcrypt_kdf would be better :)

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