motivation
passwords’ protection sucks
we need Password Hashing Schemes: “slow”, tunable, more efficient on defenders’ hardware than on attackers’
(credit: @jmgosney)
PHC
independent project, no sponsor or external funding
panel of experts from academia, industry, gov, etc.:
@bascule, @veorq, @dchest, @jmgosney, @bitweasil, @matthew_d_green, Gutmann, @cryptopathe, phk, Lucks, @sevenps, @cperciva, @solardiz, @marshray, @hashcat, @Sc00bzT, Turan, @zooko, @codesinchaos, @yarrkov
- 2013 Q1: call for submissions
- 2014 March 31: deadline
- 2014 Q4: finalists selection
- 2015 Q2: winners selection
PHC submissions (22)
AntCrypt, Argon, battcrypt, Catena, Catfish, Centrifuge, EARWORM, Gambit, Lanarea, Lyra2, M3lcrypt, Makwa, MCSPHS, Omega, Crypt, Parallel, PolyPassHash, POMELO, Pufferfish, RIG, Schvrch, Tortuga, TwoCats, Yarn, yescrypt
PHC finalists
to be announced soon
help us select the winners
- implement the finalists (CPU, GPU, FPGA, etc.)
- find bugs in the existing code
- cryptanalyze the algorithms
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