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by tveita 4049 days ago
scrypt cracking is still embarrassingly parallel even if it's hard to run on a GPU. I understand the term "asymptotically more" to refer to big O notation, where constant factors like that are ignored.
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Well it's hard to state what exact n is here, but you'd probably be increasing both the calculation time and memory requirements at 2^n, so you need roughly 1/k of an entire computer to calculate even as Moore's law marches on and factors increase, but PBKDF2 parallelizes more and more.