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Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 15:36:56 +0100
From: Krisztián Pintér <pinterkr@...il.com>
To: "discussions@...sword-hashing.net" <discussions@...sword-hashing.net>
Subject: Re: [PHC] Another PHC candidates "mechanical" tests (ROUND2)

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 3:18 PM, Bill Cox <waywardgeek@...il.com> wrote:
> I personally am now a big fan of your authentication server concept.

really large companies, like amazon or google, might even be switch to
dedicated hashing hardware in those auth servers.

the usual view that defender is pc/gpu/smartphone, and attacker is
asic, is wrong. it is pretty much possible that the attacker is a pc
botnet / distributed computing platform, and the defender is a google
asic.