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Poly1305 is a universal hash family designed by Daniel J. Bernstein in 2002 for use in cryptography. [1] [2]As with any universal hash family, Poly1305 can be used as a one-time message authentication code to authenticate a single message using a secret key shared between sender and recipient, [3] similar to the way that a one-time pad can be used to conceal the content of a single message ...
The XChaCha20-Poly1305 construction is an extended 192-bit nonce variant of the ChaCha20-Poly1305 construction, using XChaCha20 instead of ChaCha20. When choosing nonces at random, the XChaCha20-Poly1305 construction allows for better security than the original construction. The draft attempt to standardize the construction expired in July 2020.
Salsa20 and the closely related ChaCha are stream ciphers developed by Daniel J. Bernstein. Salsa20, the original cipher, was designed in 2005, then later submitted to the eSTREAM European Union cryptographic validation process by Bernstein. ChaCha is a modification of Salsa20 published in 2008. It uses a new round function that increases ...
scrypt. In cryptography, scrypt (pronounced "ess crypt" [1]) is a password-based key derivation function created by Colin Percival in March 2009, originally for the Tarsnap online backup service. [2][3] The algorithm was specifically designed to make it costly to perform large-scale custom hardware attacks by requiring large amounts of memory.
Key generation. Key generation is the process of generating keys in cryptography. A key is used to encrypt and decrypt whatever data is being encrypted/decrypted. A device or program used to generate keys is called a key generator or keygen.
BLAKE was submitted to the NIST hash function competition by Jean-Philippe Aumasson, Luca Henzen, Willi Meier, and Raphael C.-W. Phan. In 2008, there were 51 entries. BLAKE made it to the final round consisting of five candidates but lost to Keccak in 2012, which was selected for the SHA-3 algorithm.
Balloon hashing is a key derivation function presenting proven memory-hard password-hashing and modern design. It was created by Dan Boneh, Henry Corrigan-Gibbs (both at Stanford University) and Stuart Schechter (Microsoft Research) in 2016. [1][2] It is a recommended function in NIST password guidelines. [3] The authors claim that Balloon: is ...
Equihash. Equihash is a memory-hard Proof-of-work algorithm introduced by the University of Luxembourg 's Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) at the 2016 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium. The algorithm is based on a generalization of the Birthday problem which finds colliding hash values.