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Re: [Cryptography] Bitcoin attack
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phillip Hallam-Baker)
Tue Nov 5 18:17:44 2013
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Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 15:26:03 -0500
From: Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@gmail.com>
To: Marcel Popescu <mdpopescu@gmail.com>
Cc: "cryptography@metzdowd.com" <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
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This will give the NSA something to do with all that crypto hardware they
bought with taxpayer money that is going to be rendered useless by
deployment of pervasive crypto. They can mine the bitcoin pool to
exhaustion and shut the system down or they could attempt to preserve the
viability of the system by limiting their extraction rate to a 'tax'.
On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 4:31 AM, Marcel Popescu <mdpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
> Have you guys seen this? http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.0243
>
> I'm a layman in the field, I have no clue on how to analyze it. I'm just
> bringing it up in case anyone else here cares about the subject.
>
> Marcel
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<div dir=3D"ltr">This will give the NSA something to do with all that crypt=
o hardware they bought with taxpayer money that is going to be rendered use=
less by deployment of pervasive crypto. They can mine the bitcoin pool to e=
xhaustion and shut the system down or they could attempt to preserve the vi=
ability of the system by limiting their extraction rate to a 'tax'.=
<div>
<br></div><div><br></div></div><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><br><br><div clas=
s=3D"gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 4:31 AM, Marcel Popescu <span dir=
=3D"ltr"><<a href=3D"mailto:mdpopescu@gmail.com" target=3D"_blank">mdpop=
escu@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1p=
x #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir=3D"ltr"><div class=3D"gmail_default=
" style=3D"font-family:georgia,serif">Have you guys seen this?=A0<a href=3D=
"http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.0243" style=3D"font-family:arial" target=3D"_bla=
nk">http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.0243</a></div>
<div class=3D"gmail_default" style=3D"font-family:georgia,serif">
<br></div><div class=3D"gmail_default" style=3D"font-family:georgia,serif">=
I'm a layman in the field, I have no clue on how to analyze it. I'm=
just bringing it up in case anyone else here cares about the subject.</div=
>
<span class=3D"HOEnZb"><font color=3D"#888888">
<div class=3D"gmail_default" style=3D"font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div>=
<div class=3D"gmail_default" style=3D"font-family:georgia,serif">Marcel</di=
v><div class=3D"gmail_default" style=3D"font-family:georgia,serif"><br></di=
v></font></span></div>
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