scrypt-package: scrypt key derivation functions for R

scrypt-packageR Documentation

scrypt key derivation functions for R

Description

scrypt is an R package for working with scrypt. Scrypt is a password-based key derivation function created by Colin Percival. The algorithm was specifically designed to make it costly to perform large-scale custom hardware attacks by requiring large amounts of memory.

Details

Package: scrypt
Type: Package
Version: 0.1
Date: 2014-01-07
License: GPLv3

The scrypt package can be used for hashing and verifying passwords, or encrypting and decrypting data. Additionally, the scrypt function can be used directly.

Author(s)

RStudio, Inc.; Colin Percival Maintainer: Andy Kipp <andy@rstudio.com>

References

scrypt

See Also

hashPassword, verifyPassword and scrypt


scrypt documentation built on Feb. 16, 2023, 6:17 p.m.