This is a PHP library providing a wrapper to Colin Percival's scrypt implementation. Scrypt is a key derivation function designed to be far more secure against hardware brute-force attacks than alternative functions such as PBKDF2 or bcrypt.

Details of the scrypt key derivation function are given in a paper by Colin Percival, Stronger Key Derivation via Sequential Memory-Hard Functions: PDF.

An example class using this module can be found in; scrypt.php

We are happy to receive bug reports, fixes, documentation enhancements, and other improvements.

Please report bugs via the github issue tracker.

Master git repository:

git clone git://github.com/DomBlack/php-scrypt.git

This library is written and maintained by Dominic Black, thephenix@gmail.com.

This extension is now avaible through PECL.

pecl install scrypt

1. phpize
2. If on OSX; export CFLAGS='-arch i386 -arch x86_64'
3. ./configure --enable-scrypt
4. make
5. make install
6. Add the extension to your php.ini

    ; Enable scrypt extension module
    extension=scrypt.so

Using Visual Studio 2008 (or Visual C++ Express 2008) open up the attached project inside the VS2008 folder. This project assumes you have the PHP thread safe source at; C:\phpsrcts\, a PHP install at C:\php\ and this source code extracted to C:\php-scrypt\.

1. Build the project.
2. Copy the resultant scrypt.dll to your ext directory in PHP.
3. Add the extension to your php.ini

    ; Enable scrypt extension module
    extension=scrypt.dll

This works is licensed under the BSD 2-Clause license.

Original Scrypt Implementation; Copyright (c) 2009 Colin Percival

PHP Module; Copyright (c) 2012, Dominic Black

All rights reserved.

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