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It's security through improbability. According to the author, there's 2^512 possible variants of his algorithm, all depending on the parameters fed to it. This
by jhgg 12y ago
It's security through improbability. According to the author, there's 2^512 possible variants of his algorithm, all depending on the parameters fed to it. This means that specialized hardware wouldn't be impossible, but that it'd be highly improbable that your adversaries' hardware matches the variant of the algorithm you used to create the hash.
- dchest 12y agoHa, but it doesn't work like this: his algorithm is described in 150 lines of C + SHA512 implementation. I'm pretty sure it can be implemented in hardware as well.
- dchest 12y ago"It's security through improbability", BTW, is a useless term: pretty much all cryptography concerns with improbability of something.