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| author | Bas Westerbaan <bas@westerbaan.name> | 2016-05-27 10:41:52 +0200 |
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| committer | Tim Graham <timograham@gmail.com> | 2016-05-27 18:37:37 -0400 |
| commit | c6aa941978b02138975123514f733ee9c99b0c28 (patch) | |
| tree | d9d7b8b13ad45c416300f2ff75f411428a7b1e5f | |
| parent | 85ab56944df7f48e3a8b1734c91fd90cb41bfd2f (diff) | |
[1.10.x] Fixed #26635 -- Clarified Argon2PasswordHasher's memory_cost differs from command line utility.
Backport of 9407cc966b02e5ef69b7f561a6b972aff5d9c2e0 from master
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/topics/auth/passwords.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/topics/auth/passwords.txt b/docs/topics/auth/passwords.txt index 578d917cf4..aaeb929d81 100644 --- a/docs/topics/auth/passwords.txt +++ b/docs/topics/auth/passwords.txt @@ -232,6 +232,12 @@ follows: Pick a ``time_cost`` that takes an acceptable time for you. If ``time_cost`` set to 1 is unacceptably slow, lower ``memory_cost``. +.. admonition:: ``memory_cost`` interpretation + + The argon2 command-line utility and some other libraries interpret the + ``memory_cost`` parameter differently from the value that Django uses. The + conversion is given by ``memory_cost == 2 ** memory_cost_commandline``. + .. _password-upgrades: Password upgrading |