On: Storing Passwords Securely

[dekz]

Processors get faster and faster, so we increase the work factor to compensate and keep it a time-hard problem. This has no real restriction on memory though, so the amount of memory only has to grow linear to the amount of time.

Making it memory-hard makes it also memory hard.

[kijin → dekz]

> Making it memory-hard makes it also memory hard.

That's a tautology, unless the hyphen means something different.