phc-discussions - Re: [PHC] Bandwidth hardened algorithms?

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Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 09:56:13 -0700
From: Bill Cox <waywardgeek@...il.com>
To: "discussions@...sword-hashing.net" <discussions@...sword-hashing.net>
Subject: Re: [PHC] Bandwidth hardened algorithms?

On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 2:33 AM, denis bider <pwhashing@...isbider.com>
wrote:

> Sounds plausible to me, and probably better than what the current crop of
> crypto currencies are using.
>
> In this design, is a 32 GiB ROM really needed? On the one hand, this
> excludes lots of users; and on the other, if an algorithm requires this
> much to be secure, then it's not going to be secure in 2 years.
>
> Why wouldn't, say, 4 GiB be sufficient?
>
> Alexander suggested 32 GiB as a way to avoid bot-nets.  I think he has a
point.  However, if we are not trying to defend against bot-nets, then 1-4
GiB would probably be better.

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