MiWCryptohn

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   by MiWCryptohn 13y ago

   One could make a case that the use of sha256 would drive down the cost of comodity ASICs, enabling a well resourced attacker to use mining hardware 'off-label' to find sha256 hash collisions. Same goes for scrypt, with the adoptio
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   by MiWCryptohn 13y ago

   Hardly a waste of time. You haven't seen this for what it truly is; a waste of time is your cash sitting in a clearinghouse for days before going overseas. a waste of time is any value transaction that takes more than minutes on a glob
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   by MiWCryptohn 13y ago

   Doesn't work that way, bitcoin proof of work uses SHA256 twice, which is of limited value. It gives you a near collision to a double hash. It's burning energy for work.
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   by MiWCryptohn 13y ago

   PFS doesn't provide any resistance against an active attacker; ie: one that can substitute any message between the client and server. pFs provides resistance to previously passively recorded cipher texts being decrypted when the static
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   by MiWCryptohn 13y ago

   Agreed, neat stuff. I installed it on my windows workstation.
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   by MiWCryptohn 13y ago

   Don't forget it's userspace equiv (strace is syscalls), ltrace. This tracks all lib calls made by process. Under windows, strace is an SSL/TLS monitoring tool (also hella useful). It shows payloads passed to CryptoAPI/CN