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A visual representation of the ARGON2 Algorithm

Argon2: Memory-Hard Password Hashing

Argon2 won the 2015 Password Hashing Competition by making brute-force attacks expensive in RAM, not just CPU time — closing off the GPU and ASIC cracking farms that broke older schemes. Here's how memory-hardness works.

August 4, 2026

A visual representation of the PBKDF2 Algorithm

Key Derivation Functions Beginner

PBKDF2: Password-Based Key Derivation

For nearly two decades, PBKDF2's answer to password cracking was simple: make every guess expensive by repeating a hash thousands of times. Here's how it works, and why memory-hard successors like Argon2 eventually surpassed it.

August 4, 2026