Package python-module-scrypt: Information

This is a set of Python_ bindings for the scrypt_ key derivation
function.

Scrypt is useful when encrypting password as it is possible to specify
a *minimum* amount of time to use when encrypting and decrypting. If,
for example, a password takes 0.05 seconds to verify, a user won't
notice the slight delay when signing in, but doing a brute force
search of several billion passwords will take a considerable amount of
time. This is in contrast to more traditional hash functions such as
MD5 or the SHA family which can be implemented extremely fast on cheap
hardware.

Package python-module-scrypt: Information

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