search

samuel-lucas6 / draft-lucas-bkdf

An Internet-Draft for the Balloon Key Derivation Function (BKDF), a memory-hard password hashing and password-based key derivation function.
Other
4 stars 1 forks source link

Rename the draft/algorithm to Balloon KDF (BKDF) #15

Closed samuel-lucas6 closed 2 months ago

samuel-lucas6 commented 2 months ago
  1. The current naming is confusing because there's Balloon and Balloon Hashing, with the latter implying Balloon isn't a KDF.
  2. The design has been modified, so it makes sense to have a different name. Otherwise, people may think this is the same algorithm as other versions/variants.
  3. BKDF follows the same naming as PBKDF2 and HKDF in that it's an acronym.