PeaZip 10.1 File Archiver Improves Resilience to Password Guessing Attacks
PeaZip 10.1 is here only two weeks after PeaZip 10 and updates the backend to Pea 1.21, which introduces scrypt KDF as the default option instead of PBKDF2 to improve resilience to password-guessing attacks. This change alone increases the memory cost up to 1GB per instance. KDF was supported since Pea 1.5.
This release also updates the GUI with an improved navigation bar that features an integrated compact sidebar mode with other modes, support for dragging and dropping extract items even when it’s set to Compact mode, and the ability to automatically adapt the width to the zoom level of the app.
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PeaZip 10.1 Boosts File Security with New Encryption Defaults
PeaZip, the popular open-source file archiver, has just released version 10.1, bringing a series of updates aimed at improving both security and usability.
One of the most notable backend updates is the introduction of scrypt as the default Key Derivation Function (KDF), replacing PBKDF2 from previous versions. Scrypt improves resistance to password-guessing attacks by increasing memory cost per instance, which means better protection for your data.
By default, scrypt uses 64 MB of memory, but this can be configured up to 1 GB for added security, offering flexibility for users with varying hardware capabilities. This new KDF is applied across all cascaded encryption modes, ensuring three layers of security in encrypted archives.