Ah. Thanks! On Nov 15, 2013, at 5:34 PM, Colin Percival <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 11/15/13 16:09, Ron Garret wrote: >> Since we’re on this topic, I have a question/suggestion: >> >>> The parameter N must be a power of 2 greater than 1. >> >> It seems to me that it would be better to specify that the input parameter n >> should simply be a positive integer and have the computation of N=2^n be >> part of the scrypt algorithm. Is there a reason you didn’t do it that way? > > The scrypt algorithm is specified as operating on arbitrary N; it's just > this particular implementation which is limited in the values it can > handle. > > I wanted the parameters of the function to match the definition of the > algorithm it implements. > > -- > Colin Percival > Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve > Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid >
