Paper 2014/620

The M3dcrypt Password Hashing Function

Isaiah Makwakwa

Abstract

M3dcrypt is a password hashing function built around the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm and the arcfour pseudorandom function. It uses up to 256-bit pseudorandom salt values and supports 48-byte passwords.

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Preprint. MINOR revision.
Keywords
one-way functionspsedorandom functions
Contact author(s)
imakwakwa @ gmail com
History
2015-03-19: last of 2 revisions
2014-08-13: received
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2014/620
License
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BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2014/620,
      author = {Isaiah Makwakwa},
      title = {The M3dcrypt Password Hashing Function},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2014/620},
      year = {2014},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/620}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/620}
}
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