NSS/ARGON2

Team

Introduction

We are a team of four Junior Undergraduates at National Institute of Technology, Trichy, majoring in Computer Science and Engineering. We have a wide range of overlapping and unique interests and we mostly tinker with stuff till it breaks. Works 70% of the time, all the time.

Members

• Sachin Ashok
• Soorya Narayan JM
• Suhith Rajesh
• Venkkatesh Sekar
• Professor: Dr. Leela Velusamy
• Mozilla Advisors: Franziskus Kiefer, Tim Taubert

Project

Description

Argon2 is a memory hard function for password hashing and other applications. Argon2 is based on Blake2 and winner of the password hashing competition. The goal of this project is to provide basic Blake2 support for NSS and base Argon2 on it.

Resources

• Public Workpad : https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/mwos-hashing
• Blake2 meta bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1310763
• Argon2 meta bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1310762

Scope

At present, it is limited to implementing the Blake2 functions as well as the password hashing function Argon2 on top of it.

Goals

• Blake2 implementation working on all platforms
• Argon2 implementation working on all platforms
• Functional tests
• Performance tests
• Good documentation
• Performance comparison with other implementations

Updates

Present Status

Getting up to speed with the existing literature on BLAKE2 and ARGON2

25-10-2016

• Meeting:
• Progress
  • Writeup on Blake2  : https://gist.github.com/SooryaN/8d1b2c19bf0b971c11366b0680908d4b
  • Writeup on Argon2  : https://gist.github.com/Sachin-A/a3e89b13ee108c5dde7a6d34eb8b6abe
• Potential points of discussion:
  • Division of work
  • Roadmap
• Upcoming work
  • Basic implementation of Blake2s and Blake2b in C

18-10-2016

• Meeting Summary
  • Discussed changed objectives: Implementing BLAKE2 and ARGON2 instead of SHA-3
• Upcoming work:
  • Read up on specifications and generate summary

10-10-2016

Kick off meeting: Oriented ourselves, discussed project outline, goals

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• Meeting Summary
• Progress
• Potential points of discussion
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References

1. https://www.cryptolux.org/images/0/0d/Argon2.pdf
2. https://blake2.net/