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> This is incorrect. I didn't say that was correct, I was just saying that's what the article (incorrectly, in my opinion) appears to say. I'm not sure who's m
by gbl08ma 13y ago
> This is incorrect.
I didn't say that was correct, I was just saying that's what the article (incorrectly, in my opinion) appears to say. I'm not sure who's misunderstanding who...
> If sha256 is broken so badly that arbitrary outputs can be chosen
It's not about sha256 being broken or not, but about the way it is being used for mining (being used incorrectly != broken hashing algo). Even though I agree, if it was being used improperly we would have noticed by now - I could have chosen a better example.
- nwh 13y ago> "Litecoin uses Scrypt as a proof-of-work scheme. Scrypt uses the low-latency cache memory of modern processors to provide greater hash-speeds on CPUs in comparison to GPUs. We would like to extend our thanks to ArtForz for the implementation." https://web.archive.org/web/20111128074850/http://litecoin.org/ https://web.archive.org/web/20111128074850/http://litecoin.o...
- maaku 13y ago> It's not about sha256 being broken or not, but about the way it is being used for mining (being used incorrectly != broken hashing algo). Even though I agree, if it was being used improperly we would have noticed by now - I could have chosen a better example. It's being used absolutely correctly for mining. Proof of work needs to be extremely easy to validate. You want the fastest hash possible, not the slowest.