Closed Down the Previous Issue on 'Gocryptfs' and Opened Up Another One Declaring the Use of 'Scrypt' in Gocryptfs is a Vulnerability

Full stop.

This didn't need to be covertly relayed to the maintainer of that project because there is more than enough public information re: the shortcomings of Scrypt and there have been others that have brought up the inclusion of Argon2 as either an alternatives or an outright replacement for Scrypt.

The issue can be found here: https://github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs/issues/522

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Closed Down the Previous Issue on 'Gocryptfs' and Opened Up Another One Declaring the Use of 'Scrypt' in Gocryptfs is a Vulnerability

Full stop.

This didn't need to be covertly relayed to the maintainer of that project because there is more than enough public information re: the shortcomings of Scrypt and there have been others that have brought up the inclusion of Argon2 as either an alternatives or an outright replacement for Scrypt.

The issue can be found here: https://github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs/issues/522

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Gocryptfs Use of Scrypt Introduces a Vulnerability That Renders the Entire Cryptographic Schme Effectively Compromised · Issue…

Preface: To any that are reading, this is a continuation of a former (now closed) issue that I pulled a few days ago, inquiring about the inclusion of Argon2 / outright replacement of Scrypt. For s...

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