Bug#713913: ITP: libscrypt -- scrypt shared library.
Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg@debian.org> writes:
> Hi Micah,
>
> Micah Anderson <micah@debian.org> writes:
>> Scrypt shared library, implementing the reference implementation of the scrypt binary.
> Please improve this package description. It is unclear what scrypt is
> and why it’s great.
How about something like:
The scrypt algorithm is a password-based key derivation function
designed to require large amounts of memory. This proof-of-work scheme
is intended to make it costly to perform large-scale hardware
attacks.
.
This package contains a shared library implementing the scrypt
algorithm, based on the original implementation with a number of
harnesses and simplified interfaces.
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