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Re:The password hash Argon2, winner of PHC by jnoland on Friday January 08, 2016 @03:35PM (#10868004)
Is there a pure Python version of Argon2?
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Re:The password hash Argon2, winner of PHC by bwesterb on Thursday January 21, 2016 @09:50AM (#10945514)
I am writing one. You should use the C one, if you can.

https://github.com/bwesterb/argon2pure

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Re:The password hash Argon2, winner of PHC by sbierwagen on Friday January 08, 2016 @04:07PM (#10868254)
I'm guessing it would be hard to eliminate timing side-channels in pure python, so no.
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