Re: Argon2 limits choice

Hi,

I do not think these limits are "conservative".
You gain very little by raising them. Better just 
use a good passphrase.

Regards,
Arno

On Mon, Oct 04, 2021 at 00:30:13 CEST, Dmitry Dmitry wrote:
>    Hi,
>    I am wondering if there are objective reasons for such conservative
>    **upper** **hard** limits for Argon?
>    } else if (!strcmp(kdf, "argon2i") || !strcmp(kdf, "argon2id")) {
>       limits->max_iterations = UINT32_MAX;
>       limits->max_memory     = 4*1024*1024; /* 4GiB */
>       limits->max_parallel   = 4;
>    }
>    (well, apart from UINT32_MAX, which makes sense, kind of)
>    Just to reiterate, I am not talking about minimum values, or default
>    values. The question is about upper limits.
>    P.S.
>    I was personally thinking about using ~32 threads and ~128GiB of RAM as
>    KDF parameters...
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