Re: Who cares about side-channel attacks?

2008-11-03 Thread Tanja Lange
Examples of side channel analysis on real systems I however have never seen in the field. Any rumors would be highly appreciated. At Crypto'08 a team from Bochum demonstrated their side-channel attack on KeeLoq. There were some theoretical attacks before but the SCA really broke it. KeeLoq

Re: Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper

2008-11-03 Thread John Levine
As long as honest nodes control the most CPU power on the network, they can generate the longest chain and outpace any attackers. But they don't. Bad guys routinely control zombie farms of 100,000 machines or more. People I know who run a blacklist of spam sending zombies tell me they often

Re: Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper

2008-11-03 Thread Satoshi Nakamoto
As long as honest nodes control the most CPU power on the network, they can generate the longest chain and outpace any attackers. But they don't. Bad guys routinely control zombie farms of 100,000 machines or more. People I know who run a blacklist of spam sending zombies tell me they often