yescrypt

This repository holds my implementations of the yescrypt algorithm done for Google Summer of Code 2015. WARNING: This code has not yet been brought up to date with the latest version of yescrypt, yescrypt 1.0. This is being tracked in GitHub Issue #32.

Documentation

Here are some useful yescrypt and scrypt links:

• All Password Hashing Competition candidates
• The yescrypt specification
• The yescrypt C implementations
• Colin Percival's scrypt paper
• The scrypt Internet-Draft

Optimization

Currently, none of the implementations are optimized.

Using a non-optimized implementation in production is a security weakness. This is because you are forced to use weaker parameters than you could have with an optimized implementation, and therefore the attacker has more of an advantage.

Use an optimized native implementation if possible.

Audit Status

None of the code in this repository has been professionally reviewed. The code here should be considered experimental and not used in production until this notice is removed.

Reporting Security Bugs

Please disclose bugs publicly by opening an issue on GitHub. If you need to disclose privately for some reason, or don't have a GitHub account, you can find my contact information here.

The ecmascript_simd polyfill

The polyfill for SIMD operations, in javascript/ecmascript_simd.js, was taken from tc38/ecmascript_simd and modified to support shiftRightLogicalByScalar on Int32x4.

Common API

Each of the yescrypt implementations provides the following command-line API:

yescrypt-cli <function> <args...>

Here, <function> can be one of the following:

• yescrypt: Compute the yescrypt function using arguments password (hex encoded), salt (hex encoded), N, r, p, t, g, flags, and dkLen in that order.

• pwxform: Compute the pwxform function on the arguments pwxblock (hex encoded) and sbox (hex encoded) in that order.

• salsa20_8: Compute the salsa20 function reduced to 8 rounds on the hex-encoded cell provided as the next argument.

• benchmark: Run a performance benchmark (see below for arguments.).

When <function> is benchmark, the next argument is the iteration count, and then further arguments can be:

• yescrypt: Benchmark the yescrypt function, with the following arguments being N, r, p, t, g, flags, and dkLen in that order, printing the performance of computing yescypt with those parameters on random passphrases and salts in c/s.

• pwxform: Benchmark the pwxform function on a random block and sbox, printing the result in c/s.

• salsa20_8: Benchmark the salsa20_8 function on a random cell, printing the result in c/s.

Each implementation is expected to report its average performance for that many iterations of the requested function. Implementations should strive to return as accurate results as possible. If no meaningful accuracy is possible given the provided iteration count, the benchmark command may fail with an error message.

The rationale for making each implementation have their own timing code is that firstly, the overhead of process creation, etc. is not included in the running time, and secondly, that each language "knows best" how to benchmark itself.

The rationale for not letting implementations decide the iteration count for themselves is that the benchmark user is the one who decides how long they want to run the benchmarks for and what kind of accuracy they expect.

Funding

Taylor's work on this project was funded by Google Summer of Code and by 20% "fun friday" time at Zcash.