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scrypt (version 0.1.6)

scrypt-package: 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.

Arguments

Author

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

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.

References

scrypt

See Also

hashPassword, verifyPassword and scrypt