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		deckar01 on July 31, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Stellar Stellar dev here. Thanks for the encouragement. We use scrypt to derive a key from your username and password. The key is used to encrypt your secret data with 256bit AES in GCM mode. You can check out the implementation here: https://github.com/stellar/stellar-client/blob/master/app/sc...

philipDS on July 31, 2014 [–]

Thanks! Gonna have a look at it now - seems like an interesting authentication scheme :)

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