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   by henns 5y ago

   You can couple Rendezvous Hashing with a redundancy method like replication or erasure coding. The default for Tahoe-LAFS (a distributed filesystem that uses a form of Rendezvous Hashing) uses erasure coding to split each file into (by defa
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   by henns 6y ago

   One thing to keep in mind: a lot of the die real estate in modern processors is spent on doing tasks other than calculating hashes (a lot of it is caches https://www.servethehome.com/amd-epyc-7000-series-architectu... ). So
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   by henns 6y ago

   Thanks for pointing out that I was off in my original estimate (a hasty web search showed the wrong cryptocurrency; almost nobody mines bitcoin on CPUs anymore :). From what I can see, a more realistic estimate for a single core on a deskto
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   by henns 6y ago

   I think this misses the point: we should be doing everything we can to deprecate PBKDF2 because of the big differences between what a specialized attacker can do vs. the defender. As a rough estimate: a $2k bitcoin miner can do 2^45 SHA-256