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Iota is horrendous(they rolled their own crypto and its bad) and no IOT company will ever bother with it.

• osteele 9y ago
  > Iota is horrendous(they rolled their own crypto and its bad) Yeah, I probably didn't emphasize this enough. In addition to last year's curl fiasco[1], and this year's email dump[2], there's now this unlucky-13 exploit[3]. > no IOT company will ever bother with it This would seem to follow, but [4] (partnership with Cisco, Samsung, and Volkswagen), if true, contradicts it. (I'm skeptical of IOTA partnership announcements because of last year's IOTA/Microsoft “partnership”[5].) [1] https://hackernoon.com/why-i-find-iota-deeply-alarming-934f1908194b https://hackernoon.com/why-i-find-iota-deeply-alarming-934f1... [2] https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/networks/cryptographers-urge-users-and-researchers-to-abandon-iota-after-leaked-emails https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/networks/crypt... [3] http://blog.lekkertech.net/blog/2018/03/07/iota-signatures/ http://blog.lekkertech.net/blog/2018/03/07/iota-signatures/ [4] https://www.computerworld.com.au/article/630565/blockchain-network-iota-teams-up-cisco-volkswagen-others-data-marketplace/ https://www.computerworld.com.au/article/630565/blockchain-n... [5] https://cointelegraph.com/news/iota-clarifies-misleading-microsoft-quote-no-official-partnership https://cointelegraph.com/news/iota-clarifies-misleading-mic...