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by Freaky 4501 days ago
Link for that? All I find is mentions of its weakness when used with very small amounts of memory (like Litecoin's silly decision to go with 128KB).
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Sorry for late reply, the post I was thinking off (and didn't revise before posting) is http://www.openwall.com/lists/crypt-dev/2012/09/02/1

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Thanks - that's actually the post I was thinking of. Considering on most modern machines scrypt will likely tune itself to use 512MB, a 1MB buffer's pretty small, but it would be interesting to know where the cutoff for significantly-better-than-bcrypt might be. I expect most sites could throw 16MB at logins without much difficulty (as suggested further in that thread).