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<td class="head-ltitle">CRYPTO_ARGON2I(3MONOCYPHER)</td>
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<td class="head-rtitle">CRYPTO_ARGON2I(3MONOCYPHER)</td>
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<h1 class="Sh" title="Sh" id="NAME"><a class="selflink" href="#NAME">NAME</a></h1>
<b class="Nm" title="Nm">crypto_argon2i</b> &#x2014;
<span class="Nd" title="Nd">password key derivation</span>
<h1 class="Sh" title="Sh" id="SYNOPSIS"><a class="selflink" href="#SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></h1>
<b class="In" title="In">#include
&lt;<a class="In" title="In">monocypher.h</a>&gt;</b>
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<var class="Ft" title="Ft">void</var>
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<b class="Fn" title="Fn">crypto_argon2i</b>(<var class="Fa" title="Fa">uint8_t
*hash</var>, <var class="Fa" title="Fa">uint32_t hash_size</var>,
<var class="Fa" title="Fa">void *work_area</var>,
<var class="Fa" title="Fa">uint32_t nb_blocks</var>,
<var class="Fa" title="Fa">uint32_t nb_iterations</var>,
<var class="Fa" title="Fa">const uint8_t *password</var>,
<var class="Fa" title="Fa">uint32_t password_size</var>,
<var class="Fa" title="Fa">const uint8_t *salt</var>,
<var class="Fa" title="Fa">uint32_t salt_size</var>);
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<var class="Ft" title="Ft">void</var>
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<b class="Fn" title="Fn">crypto_argon2i_general</b>(<var class="Fa" title="Fa">uint8_t
*hash</var>, <var class="Fa" title="Fa">uint32_t hash_size</var>,
<var class="Fa" title="Fa">void *work_area</var>,
<var class="Fa" title="Fa">uint32_t nb_blocks</var>,
<var class="Fa" title="Fa">uint32_t nb_iterations</var>,
<var class="Fa" title="Fa">const uint8_t *password</var>,
<var class="Fa" title="Fa">uint32_t password_size</var>,
<var class="Fa" title="Fa">const uint8_t *salt</var>,
<var class="Fa" title="Fa">uint32_t salt_size</var>,
<var class="Fa" title="Fa">const uint8_t *key</var>,
<var class="Fa" title="Fa">uint32_t key_size</var>,
<var class="Fa" title="Fa">const uint8_t *ad</var>,
<var class="Fa" title="Fa">uint32_t ad_size</var>);
<h1 class="Sh" title="Sh" id="DESCRIPTION"><a class="selflink" href="#DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></h1>
Argon2i is a resource intensive password key derivation scheme optimised for the
typical x86-like processor. It runs in constant time with respect to the
contents of the password.
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Typical applications are password checking (for online services), and key
derivation (for encryption). Derived keys can be used to encrypt, for example,
private keys or password databases.
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The version provided by Monocypher has no threading support, so the degree of
parallelism is limited to 1. This is considered good enough for most purposes.
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The arguments to <b class="Fn" title="Fn">crypto_argon2i</b>() are:
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<dt class="It-tag">&#x00A0;</dt>
<dd class="It-tag">&#x00A0;</dd>
<dt class="It-tag"><var class="Fa" title="Fa">hash</var></dt>
<dd class="It-tag">The output hash.</dd>
<dt class="It-tag">&#x00A0;</dt>
<dd class="It-tag">&#x00A0;</dd>
<dt class="It-tag"><var class="Fa" title="Fa">hash_size</var></dt>
<dd class="It-tag">Length of <var class="Fa" title="Fa">hash</var>, in bytes.
This argument should be set to 32 or 64 for compatibility with the
<b class="Fn" title="Fn">crypto_verify*</b>() constant time comparison
functions.</dd>
<dt class="It-tag">&#x00A0;</dt>
<dd class="It-tag">&#x00A0;</dd>
<dt class="It-tag"><var class="Fa" title="Fa">work_area</var></dt>
<dd class="It-tag">Temporary buffer for the algorithm, allocated by the
caller. It must be <var class="Fa" title="Fa">nb_blocks</var> &#x00D7;
1024 bytes big, and suitably aligned for 64-bit integers. If you are not
sure how to allocate that buffer, just use
<b class="Fn" title="Fn">malloc</b>().
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The work area is automatically wiped by
<b class="Fn" title="Fn">crypto_argon2i</b>().</dd>
<dt class="It-tag">&#x00A0;</dt>
<dd class="It-tag">&#x00A0;</dd>
<dt class="It-tag"><var class="Fa" title="Fa">nb_blocks</var></dt>
<dd class="It-tag">The number of blocks for the work area. Must be at least 8.
A value of 100000 (one hundred megabytes) is a good starting point. If the
computation takes too long, reduce this number. If it is too fast,
increase this number. If it is still too fast with all available memory,
increase <var class="Fa" title="Fa">nb_iterations</var>.</dd>
<dt class="It-tag">&#x00A0;</dt>
<dd class="It-tag">&#x00A0;</dd>
<dt class="It-tag"><var class="Fa" title="Fa">nb_iterations</var></dt>
<dd class="It-tag">The number of iterations. It must be at least 1. A value of
3 is <i class="Em" title="Em">strongly</i> recommended; any value lower
than 3 enables significantly more efficient attacks.</dd>
<dt class="It-tag">&#x00A0;</dt>
<dd class="It-tag">&#x00A0;</dd>
<dt class="It-tag"><var class="Fa" title="Fa">password</var></dt>
<dd class="It-tag">The password to hash. It should be wiped with
<a class="Xr" title="Xr" href="crypto_wipe.html">crypto_wipe(3monocypher)</a>
after being hashed.</dd>
<dt class="It-tag">&#x00A0;</dt>
<dd class="It-tag">&#x00A0;</dd>
<dt class="It-tag"><var class="Fa" title="Fa">password_size</var></dt>
<dd class="It-tag">Length of <var class="Fa" title="Fa">password</var>, in
bytes.</dd>
<dt class="It-tag">&#x00A0;</dt>
<dd class="It-tag">&#x00A0;</dd>
<dt class="It-tag"><var class="Fa" title="Fa">salt</var></dt>
<dd class="It-tag">A password salt. This should be filled with random bytes,
generated separately for each password to be hashed. See
<a class="Xr" title="Xr" href="intro.html">intro(3monocypher)</a> for
advice about generating random bytes (use the operating system's random
number generator).</dd>
<dt class="It-tag">&#x00A0;</dt>
<dd class="It-tag">&#x00A0;</dd>
<dt class="It-tag"><var class="Fa" title="Fa">salt_size</var></dt>
<dd class="It-tag">Length of <var class="Fa" title="Fa">salt</var>, in bytes.
Must be at least 8. 16 is recommended.</dd>
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The output hash must not overlap with the work area, or it will be wiped along
with it. Any other overlap is permitted.
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Use
<a class="Xr" title="Xr" href="crypto_verify16.html">crypto_verify16(3monocypher)</a>,
<a class="Xr" title="Xr" href="crypto_verify32.html">crypto_verify32(3monocypher)</a>
or
<a class="Xr" title="Xr" href="crypto_verify64.html">crypto_verify64(3monocypher)</a>
to compare password hashes to prevent timing attacks.
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To select the <var class="Fa" title="Fa">nb_blocks</var> and
<var class="Fa" title="Fa">nb_iterations</var> parameters, it should first be
decided how long the computation should take. For user authentication, values
somewhere between half a second (convenient) and several seconds (paranoid)
are recommended. The computation should use as much memory as can be spared.
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Since parameter selection depends on your hardware, some trial and error will be
required in order to determine the ideal settings. Three iterations and 100000
blocks (that is, one hundred megabytes of memory) is a good starting point.
Adjust <var class="Fa" title="Fa">nb_blocks</var> first. If using all
available memory is not slow enough, increase
<var class="Fa" title="Fa">nb_iterations</var>.
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<b class="Fn" title="Fn">crypto_argon2i_general</b>() is a variant of
<b class="Fn" title="Fn">crypto_argon2i</b>() that supports keyed hashing and
hashing of additional data. The additional arguments are:
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<dt class="It-tag">&#x00A0;</dt>
<dd class="It-tag">&#x00A0;</dd>
<dt class="It-tag"><var class="Fa" title="Fa">key</var></dt>
<dd class="It-tag">A key to use in the hash. Can be
<code class="Dv" title="Dv">NULL</code> if
<var class="Fa" title="Fa">key_size</var> is zero. The key is generally
not needed, but it does have some uses. In the context of password
derivation, it would be stored separately from the password database, and
would remain secret even if an attacker were to steal the database. Note
that changing the key requires rehashing the user's password, which is
only possible upon user login.</dd>
<dt class="It-tag">&#x00A0;</dt>
<dd class="It-tag">&#x00A0;</dd>
<dt class="It-tag"><var class="Fa" title="Fa">key_size</var></dt>
<dd class="It-tag">Length of <var class="Fa" title="Fa">key</var>, in bytes.
Must be zero if there is no key.</dd>
<dt class="It-tag">&#x00A0;</dt>
<dd class="It-tag">&#x00A0;</dd>
<dt class="It-tag"><var class="Fa" title="Fa">ad</var></dt>
<dd class="It-tag">Additional data. This is additional data that goes into the
hash, similar to the authenticated encryption with authenticated data
(AEAD) construction in
<a class="Xr" title="Xr" href="crypto_lock_aead.html">crypto_lock_aead(3monocypher)</a>.
This most likely has no practical application but is exposed for the sake
of completeness. This parameter may be
<code class="Dv" title="Dv">NULL</code> if
<var class="Fa" title="Fa">ad_size</var> is zero.</dd>
<dt class="It-tag">&#x00A0;</dt>
<dd class="It-tag">&#x00A0;</dd>
<dt class="It-tag"><var class="Fa" title="Fa">ad_size</var></dt>
<dd class="It-tag">Length of <var class="Fa" title="Fa">ad</var>, in bytes.
Must be zero if there is no additional data.</dd>
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<h1 class="Sh" title="Sh" id="RETURN_VALUES"><a class="selflink" href="#RETURN_VALUES">RETURN
VALUES</a></h1>
These functions return nothing.
<h1 class="Sh" title="Sh" id="EXAMPLES"><a class="selflink" href="#EXAMPLES">EXAMPLES</a></h1>
The following example assumes the existence of
<b class="Fn" title="Fn">arc4random_buf</b>(), which fills the given buffer
with cryptographically secure random bytes. If
<b class="Fn" title="Fn">arc4random_buf</b>() does not exist on your system,
see <a class="Xr" title="Xr" href="intro.html">intro(3monocypher)</a> for
advice about how to generate cryptographically secure random bytes.
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This example shows how to hash a password with the recommended baseline
parameters:
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uint8_t hash[32]; /* Output hash */
char *password = &quot;Okay Password!&quot;; /* User's password */
uint32_t password_size = 14; /* Password length */
uint8_t salt[16]; /* Random salt */
const uint32_t nb_blocks = 100000; /* 100 megabytes */
const uint32_t nb_iterations = 3; /* 3 iterations */
void *work_area = malloc(nb_blocks * 1024); /* Work area */
if (work_area == NULL) {
/* Handle malloc() failure */
/* Wipe secrets if they are no longer needed */
crypto_wipe(password, password_size);
} else {
arc4random_buf(salt, 16);
crypto_argon2i(hash, 32,
work_area, nb_blocks, nb_iterations,
(uint8_t *)password, password_size,
salt, 16);
/* Wipe secrets if they are no longer needed */
crypto_wipe(password, password_size);
free(work_area);
}
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<h1 class="Sh" title="Sh" id="SEE_ALSO"><a class="selflink" href="#SEE_ALSO">SEE
ALSO</a></h1>
<a class="Xr" title="Xr" href="crypto_lock.html">crypto_lock(3monocypher)</a>,
<a class="Xr" title="Xr" href="crypto_verify16.html">crypto_verify16(3monocypher)</a>,
<a class="Xr" title="Xr" href="crypto_wipe.html">crypto_wipe(3monocypher)</a>,
<a class="Xr" title="Xr" href="intro.html">intro(3monocypher)</a>
<h1 class="Sh" title="Sh" id="STANDARDS"><a class="selflink" href="#STANDARDS">STANDARDS</a></h1>
These functions implement Argon2i. An RFC draft is being maintained.
<h1 class="Sh" title="Sh" id="HISTORY"><a class="selflink" href="#HISTORY">HISTORY</a></h1>
The <b class="Fn" title="Fn">crypto_argon2i_general</b>() function first
appeared in Monocypher 0.1 but was called
<b class="Fn" title="Fn">crypto_argon2i</b>(); it was renamed to its current
name in Monocypher 1.1.0. The current
<b class="Fn" title="Fn">crypto_argon2i</b>() first appeared in Monocypher
1.1.0.
<h1 class="Sh" title="Sh" id="CAVEATS"><a class="selflink" href="#CAVEATS">CAVEATS</a></h1>
Any deviation from the specified input and output length ranges results in
<b class="Sy" title="Sy">undefined behaviour</b>. Make sure your inputs are
correct.</div>
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<td class="foot-date">April 8, 2020</td>
<td class="foot-os">Linux 4.15.0-106-generic</td>
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