Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
A quick google-look at ASICs showed a number in the range of 300K-20M gates,
so hash-trees could probably get speedups of up to 20-100x if you can keep
from becoming input-speed-bound. The 300K chips were about $6, 5M at $50 and
350MHz, which is somewhat
I've been working on a new electronic cash system that's fully
peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party.
The paper is available at:
http://www.bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
The main properties:
Double-spending is prevented with a peer-to-peer network.
No mint or other trusted parties.
Participants
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 16:32 +1300, Peter Gutmann wrote:
Look at the XBox
attacks for example, there's everything from security 101 lack of
checking/validation and 1980s MSDOS-era A20# issues through to Bunnie Huang's
FPGA-based homebrew logic analyser and use of timing attacks to recover
