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Title: Scrypt Authors: Venue: Wikipedia Year: unknown Canonical: wiki:scrypt URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrypt Collector: wikipedia OA: true ABSTRACT In cryptography, scrypt is a password-based key derivation function created by Colin Percival in March 2009, originally for the Tarsnap online backup service. The algorithm was specifically designed to make it costly to perform large-scale custom hardware attacks by requiring large amounts of memory. In 2016, the scrypt algorithm was published by IETF as RFC 7914. A simplified version of scrypt is used as a proof-of-work scheme by a number of cryptocurrencies, first implemented by an anonymous programmer called ArtForz in Tenebrix and followed by Fairbrix and Litecoin soon after.