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by maqp 1274 days ago
Argon2 is built on top of BLAKE2 but the hash function isn't what's making it so effective, it's memory hardness, i.e. it fills the RAM when deriving a key from password, which makes massively parallel attacks impractical because GPUs / ASICs don't have petabytes of RAM just lying around.
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Cool thank you - thought so, but always good to check :)