Description
Key derivation function that was selected as the winner of the Password Hashing Competition in July 2015
A password-hashing function created by by Alex Biryukov, Daniel Dinu, and Dmitry Khovratovich. Argon2 was declared the winner of the Password Hashing Competition (PHC). There were 24 submissions and 9 finalists. Catena, Lyra2, Makwa and yescrypt were given special recognition. The PHC recommends using Argon2 rather than legacy algorithms.