A new generation of hashing algorithms

published Jun 23, 2016 03:52   by admin ( last modified Jun 23, 2016 03:52 )

A competition was held and Argon2 was selected as winner:

Password Hashing Competition

It seems one of the traits they were looking at was resistance to ASIC optimization.

Honorable mentions of Catena, Lyra2, Makwa and Yescrypt.