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authorLEVAI Daniel <leva@ecentrum.hu>2013-12-14 23:39:14 +0700
committerErik Hanson <erik@slackbuilds.org>2013-12-14 10:53:07 -0600
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Signed-off-by: Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>
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+A shared library that implements scrypt() functionality.
+The scrypt key derivation function was originally developed for use in the
+Tarsnap online backup system and is designed to be far more secure against
+hardware brute-force attacks than alternative functions such as PBKDF2 or
+bcrypt.