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There is such a thing as a Memory Hard Function (MHF). cperciva's scrypt was designed to be one, and was subsequently proven to be maximally memory hard. https

by sigil 9y ago

There is such a thing as a Memory Hard Function (MHF). cperciva's scrypt was designed to be one, and was subsequently proven to be maximally memory hard. https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/989.pdf https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/989.pdf Litecoin uses scrypt.

cperciva 9y ago
Litecoin doesn't use scrypt. It uses a nerfed variant of scrypt which is not memory hard.
- sigil 9y ago
  Thanks for the correction. I have no idea why they would do that, do you? Isn't memory hardness the entire point?