Open Sesame: The Password Hashing Competition and Argon2

2016/02/08 by Jos Wetzels, Wetzels, Jos
Computer Science · #Advanced Malware Detection Techniques #Business #Competition (biology) #Computer science #Computer security #Cryptographic Implementations and Security #Cryptography and Security (cs.CR) #E.3 #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Hash function #Hash table #Locality-sensitive hashing #Password #User Authentication and Security Systems #cs.CR

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1602.03097

17 pages

openalex publication_date 2016/02/08 · arxiv created 2016/02/11 · arxiv updated 2016/02/12 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

In this document we present an overview of the background to and goals of the Password Hashing Competition (PHC) as well as the design of its winner, Argon2, and its security requirements and properties.

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