[Cryptography] Serious paranoia...

[Lodewijk andré de la porte]

2013/12/25 Bill Cox <waywardgeek at gmail.com>
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> So, is Krisztián a dork or a shill?  Do we live in a world where we can't
> chat intelligently about security because of NSA shills, or is the world
> really full of that many dorks?
>

Wasn't scrypt mostly intended to not work on anything but a CPU? It works
on GPUs now but with the advent of Turning Complete GPU kernels and
gigabytes of GPU RAM that's really hard to avoid.

I just think being secure was also important, but not by far as important
as consistent speed. I don't actually know the algorithm though. So I can't
comment on the cryptanalysis side of things.

However, paranoia can be fun, so go nuts:
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> http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/11/repeated-attacks-hijack-huge-chunks-of-internet-traffic-researchers-warn/


There's definitely something going on there 0_0.... How hard is it to input
certain rules (let's limit the possible rules) and have the machines find
the best path?
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