Re: [cryptography] [Cryptography] Cuckoo Cycles: a new memory-hard proof-of-work system

2014-01-10 Thread Wasa
this might be of interest as it describes an alternative to scrypt http://lyra-kdf.net/ On Thu 09 Jan 2014 22:28:55 GMT, Zooko O'Whielacronx wrote: Hello John Tromp! That is neat! The paper could use a related work section, for example Litecoin uses scrypt in the attempt to make it harder to

Re: [cryptography] [Cryptography] Cuckoo Cycles: a new memory-hard proof-of-work system

2014-01-09 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
Hello John Tromp! That is neat! The paper could use a related work section, for example Litecoin uses scrypt in the attempt to make it harder to implement in ASIC: https://litecoin.info/Scrypt The current Password Hashing Contest (disclosure: I am on the panel) may be relevant to your