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Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2013 20:28:28 -0800
From: Stephen Touset <stephen@...set.org>
To: crypt-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Password Scrambling


On Dec 29, 2013, at 6:08 PM, CodesInChaos <codesinchaos@...il.com> wrote:

> The attack as I originally envisioned it doesn't work. Value
> recalculation produces a tree which can be recomputed on the fly, but
> that needs n not sqrt(n) cores, making it useless. I'm leaning towards
> considering catena secure, but will need to think more about it.

Does this mean it actually satisfies the requirements of a sequentially memory-hard function, then? I’d be extremely interested in seeing the reasoning you used to come to the conclusion that it’s *not* susceptible to a standard TMTO.

— 
Stephen Touset
stephen@...set.org

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