Balloon hashing is akey derivation function presenting proven memory-hard password-hashing and modern design. It was created byDan Boneh, Henry Corrigan-Gibbs (both atStanford University) and Stuart Schechter (Microsoft Research) in 2016.[1][2]
The authors claim that Balloon:
Balloon is compared by its authors withArgon2, a similarly performing algorithm.[1]
There are three steps in the algorithm:[1]