phc-discussions - Re: [PHC] Memory-hard proof of work with fast verification (CPU Hash)

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Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2015 13:00:10 -0700
From: Bill Cox <waywardgeek@...il.com>
To: "discussions@...sword-hashing.net" <discussions@...sword-hashing.net>
Subject: Re: [PHC] Memory-hard proof of work with fast verification (CPU Hash)

On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 11:45 AM, Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com> wrote:

> > With Yescrypt's further GPU defense, I think it would be fine.
>
> Sure, but this makes your 512 MB ROM sort of irrelevant for GPU attacks.
> They can have that 512 MB in their GPU card's RAM, and will run almost as
> fast (for a trivial enhancement of scrypt) or just as slow (for yescrypt
> with pwxform).
>
> Alexander
>

I guess I am more concerned about ASICs.  People still enjoyed LiteCoin
mining with GPUs, but ASICs ruined the BitCoin party for a lot of people.

I _think_ the ROM defends well against an ASIC attack.  So would
mutiplication chains and the random small memory I/O operations.  However,
an ASIC attack will probably run at it's I/O bandwidth to memory.

Bill

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