flaminghedge

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   by flaminghedge 9y ago

   This was from David not Sergey.
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   by flaminghedge 9y ago

   > The thing is, I've heard of lots of new hashes in the past couple years but only heard about curl when the vulnerability was found. I'm not saying I was on the lookout for new hashes but didn't find any, but how do you e
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   by flaminghedge 9y ago

   There is no arbitrary time length requirement for security. There are standard tests (like avalanche) all of which Curl-P passed. They passed all the standard security requirements before deploying the prototype, and had a backup plan of de
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   by flaminghedge 9y ago

   People design hash functions. Repeating that ‘creating a hash function is stupid’ doesn’t make it true. There is a need for an efficient, lightweight cryptographic standard for low resource devices. Curl-P attempts to be this solution utili