For all, the motive for this is well described here: http://www.gwern.net/Self-decrypting%20files
(please correct me if I'm mistaken...) iang On 4/06/2014 14:45 pm, Peter Todd wrote: > Timelock > ======== > > Create a secret key that can be decrypted in a known amount of time > using parallel-serial hash chains. The creator can compute the timelock > in parallel, taking advantage of the large amount of cheap parallelism > available today, while others are forced to compute it serially, > constrained by the lack of scalar performance growth. .... _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list [email protected] http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
