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Memory-hardness is a property that, if proven to be possesed, makes an algorithm "immune" to time-memory tradeoffs, by "punishing" memory reductions. Usually algorithms possesing this property can't easily be computed with significantly less memory than intended by the author without accepting a severe performance penalty. This property is often used to counter ASICs and FPGAs for password-hashing.

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What does "sequential memory-hard" mean?

The Scrypt paper here defines memory-hard and sequential memory hard, and accordingly explains why one was used over the other. Definition 1. A memory-hard algorithm on a Random Access Machine is an …
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Is Argon2 "sequential memory hard"?

The Scrypt paper here defines memory-hard and sequential memory hard functions as follows: Definition 1. A memory-hard algorithm on a Random Access Machine is an algorithm which uses $S(n)$ space and …
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