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Re:Passwords for 32M Twitter accounts may have been hacked a... by baby on Thursday June 09, 2016 @03:11PM (#11871571)
> scrypt is an excellent KDF, but wasn't designed as a password hash, and thus doesn't have great GPU defence

Last time I heard of scrypt, it was being used in Litecoin, a fork of bitcoin, because it was preventing GPU based crackers.

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Re:Passwords for 32M Twitter accounts may have been hacked a... by Forbo on Thursday June 09, 2016 @03:41PM (#11871774)
I don't know if it has anything to do with GPUs, I had thought it was due to memory, as referenced on the wiki page for Litecoin: "Litecoin uses scrypt in its proof-of-work algorithm, a sequential memory-hard function requiring asymptotically more memory than an algorithm which is not memory-hard."
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