Today someone asked me if Signet used Argon as the hashing algorithm. I knew it was a good algorithm when I looked, but I wasn't 100% sure. So I dug up a code reference.
Benny, if you see this, no, it uses scrypt.
https://gitlab.hax0rbana.org/signet/signet-client/-/blob/trunk/client/signetapplication.cpp#L235
For any non-crypto people, the punchline is this: "scrypt is maximally hard against brute force attacks"
Source: https://stytch.com/blog/argon2-vs-bcrypt-vs-scrypt/
Dr. Hax
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