The coinventor of “bcrypt” is reflecting on the ubiquitous function’s 25 years and channeling cybersecurity’s core themes into electronic dance music.

Argon2 considered superior to Bcrypt. The algorithm is currently considered to be superior to Bcrypt, today's most widely used password hashing function, in terms of both security and cost ...

The flaw, tracked as CVE-2020-28052, exists in the OpenBSDBcrypt class of Bouncy Castle which implements the Bcrypt password hashing algorithm. That is, the Bcrypt.doCheckPassword() function ...

Unlike MD5, and SHA-256 hashing algorithms, cracking bcrypt hashes presents a formidable challenge for any malicious actor. For instance, an eight-character password comprising a mix of letters, ...

The core parameter of a hashing scheme is the employed hash function. This is where terms like MD5, SHA1, SHA256, SHA512, PBKDF2, BCRYPT, SCRYPT, or Argon2 all fall in.

The bcrypt configuration used by Ashley Madison was set to a "cost" of 12, meaning it put each password through 2 12, or 4,096, rounds of an extremely taxing hash function.

We just learned that Twitter uses bcrypt — a nice algorithm, but designed 11 years ago when FPGAs and GPUs weren’t as common as they are today. Others recommend scrypt because it was ...