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Why shouldn‘t the assumption be that an attacker can be motivated enough to use purpose built hardware?
by acqq 6y ago
Why shouldn‘t the assumption be that an attacker can be motivated enough to use purpose built hardware?
- ericpauley 6y agoOn of the key strengths of scrypt (in theory) is that it resists custom hardware by being reliant on memory. Custom chip designers can optimize purpose built compute but purpose built memory doesn't lead to as much improvement.