Re: scrypt time-memory tradeoff

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

On 11/17/12 02:53, Solar Designer wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 05:20:54AM +0400, Solar Designer wrote:
>> Thus, we have halved our memory needs (circuit area) and paid for this
>> by only a 25% increase in processing time.
>>
>> Now, if we want to reduce our memory needs a lot more, the situation is
>> a lot better (for the defender).
> 
> Actually, unless I am mistaken, the area-time product is asymptotically
> (by making extreme use of this trade-off) only 25% of what's expected in
> the scrypt paper.

You get a 2x cost reduction by trading increased time for reduced area (as
in a previous email) and another 2x reduction by ignoring the initial setup
(practically speaking) but I never intended to include the setup in my
area-time bound.

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Colin Percival
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