Re: scrypt command line tool - file format?

[Dmitry Chestnykh <dmitry@codingrobots.com>]

Hi,

On 27 Sep 2016, at 22:06, danielw@emaildoge.com wrote:

Scrypt comes with the "scrypt" password-based encryption utility:
http://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt.html

It sounds like it's basically scrypt prepended to openssl. But my question
is, what exactly is the file format (or structure) of the resulting
encrypted file? For instance, where and how are the scrypt params stored?

You can find it in FORMAT file:

https://github.com/Tarsnap/scrypt/blob/master/FORMAT

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Dmitry Chestnykh

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