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INFORMATIONAL

Authors:

C. Percival
S. Josefsson

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IETF

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NON WORKING GROUP

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC7914

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Abstract

This document specifies the password-based key derivation functionscrypt. The function derives one or more secret keys from a secretstring. It is based on memory-hard functions, which offer addedprotection against attacks using custom hardware. The document alsoprovides an ASN.1 schema.

For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.

For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.