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Ask HN: SCRYPT or BCRYPT?

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I've known about Colin Percival's scrypt library for a while now but I don't have the cryptographic background to validate his research/implementation. Is there anyone with such a background or a reference to someone that's written up a validation of Colin's work?

Should I even bother? I gather from Colin's writings that he wrote scrypt to replace bcrypt and that it is, from him, stronger.

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This page http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/46716/what-sh... suggests that both bcrypt and scrypt can be used (4th bullet under 'Security'). Disclosure: I added the scrypt part alongwith the references which the mods haven't deleted yet (so I am guessing it is ok).

I just went with bcrypt in my project for now because postgresql has it as a built-in function. I couldn't find for scrypt that was readily usable.

Here is a good argument on why scrypt is better: http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1987632&cid=35149... (the second ref link for bcrypt on the above stackexchange page)