[cryptography] bitcoin stats (Re: OT: Skype-Based Malware Forces Computers into Bitcoin Mining)

2013-04-18 Thread Adam Back
vs the other things malware does it also seems like a much more benign payload - uses a bit more electricity! I imagine they throttle it down dynamically when the user actually does things to hide the computer slow down. (Though typically you wont notice with GPU mining unless you are playing

Re: [cryptography] summary of zerocoin (Re: an untraceability extension to Bitcoin using a combination of digital commitments, one-way accumulators and zero-knowledge proofs, )

2013-04-18 Thread Adam Back
Someone asked me offline for the UFO RSA reference, so I am posting my reply here. (RSA UFOs are a way to generate an RSA key without ever knowing the private key in a trustworthy way). Its ref 26 in the zerocoin paper: http://spar.isi.jhu.edu/~mgreen/ZerocoinOakland.pdf T. Sander, “Efficient