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I appreciate how the example collision (page 18 in the email dump) uses the lyrics of "Push it to the limit" by David Hasselhoff. The number 9 seems to be appea
by Legogris 9y ago
I appreciate how the example collision (page 18 in the email dump) uses the lyrics of "Push it to the limit" by David Hasselhoff. The number 9 seems to be appearing a lot both in the collision raw text and previously when they refer to the bleed. I guess it has something to do with the function being based on trinary logic - could there be another flaw there related to this?
Also kind of amusing seeing the different sides of the IOTA team: Sergey is antagonistic and difficult to communicate while David tries to smooth things out and get everyone to play along nicely.
- sdenton4 9y agoMy favorite part was the IOTA folks insisting that their 'higher level' protocol would fix all their rookie mistakes. (Yes! We intentionally built our castle on quicksand! But look how hard the walls are!) It's a great example of why you need to start from sound foundations.
- dingo_bat 9y agoI mean that logic works for a lot of network stuff. Like you can have a nice fast torrent even though all the packets are UDP.
- user5454 9y agoMy favorite part is that they don't seem to understand the concept of hash collisions at all! ("ONE collision, nah that's nothing" [1]) and when JP Aumasson explains a possible attack the response is basically "Who would do such a thing?" [2] [1] https://twitter.com/c___f___b/status/967511451442302976 https://twitter.com/c___f___b/status/967511451442302976 [2] https://twitter.com/c___f___b/status/966315009071607809 https://twitter.com/c___f___b/status/966315009071607809