MacPass / MacPass/KeePassKit

[Feature] Multithreaded support for KDFs

Open
#55 0 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

Nobody has claimed this yet.

Dominant language
Objective-C
Stars
135
Forks
46
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

Description

Some KDFs allow their operations to be parallelised. AES does allow for parallelisation.

Contributor guide

No contributing guide indexed for this repository

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by locating the KDF implementations and the AES operations, then determine which operations can safely be parallelised. Done means supported KDF operations have multithreaded support without changing their results.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
objective-c
Domain
cryptography, security
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.