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+The scrypt key derivation function was originally developed for use in
+the Tarsnap online backup system and is designed to be far more secure
+against hardware brute-force attacks than alternative functions such as
+PBKDF2 or bcrypt.
+
+WWW: http://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt/