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Bug#620806: ITP: scrypt -- File encryption utility using scrypt for key derivation



Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Version: n/a

Package name: scrypt
Version: 1.1.6
Upstream Author: Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>
URL: http://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt.html
License: BSD
Description:
 A simple password-based encryption utility which demonstrates the
 scrypt key derivation function.  On modern hardware and with default
 parameters, the cost of cracking the password on a file encrypted by
 scrypt enc is approximately 100 billion times more than the cost of
 cracking the same password on a file encrypted by openssl enc; this
 means that a five-character password using scrypt is stronger than a
 ten-character password using openssl.



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