Ideally, a KDF should use as many resources as practical. The NIST competition p...

midas007 on Jan 31, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: OpenSSH 6.5 Released

Ideally, a KDF should use as many resources as practical.

The NIST competition process of favoring performant algorithms is not always in the interests of users because it means it's cheaper to bruteforce/crack.

sp332 on Jan 31, 2014 [–]

The NIST competition was for a hash function, not a key derivation function.