How do I use argon2?

[Chippel]

Hey all, afaik argon2 is the preffered algorithm compared to pbkd. I'd like to enable it but I don't know if the following is enough

--kdftype

is this enough or do I have to add argon2 afterwards?

[Narrat]

The content of the option is checked, so add argon2 afterwards. If --kdftype is empty it should fall back to pbkdf

[Chippel]

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[Narrat]

Theoretically argon2 covers against cases, where kdf is lacking, yes.
But as far as I know kdf isn't discouraged to use (or broken). Also there may be distributions or os where argon2 isn't available yet, which would make it a bad choice as a default. Memory constraint systems could be another argument. And backwards compatible behaviour another.