Package: wnpp Owner: Joost van Baal-Ilić <joos...@debian.org> Severity: wishlist
* Package name : libequihash Upstream Author : Dmitry Khovratovich and Stefan Marsiske * URL : https://github.com/stef/equihash * License : CC0-1.0 Programming Lang: C++ Description : memory-hard Proof-of-Work with fast verification Equihash implements the algorith as described in "Equihash: Asymmetric Proof-of-Work Based on the Generalized Birthday Problem" by Alex Biryukov and Dmitry Khovratovich, 2016, DOI:10.14722/ndss.2016.23108. This code, by Stefan Marsiske, is a fork of an earlier implementation by Khovratovich at https://github.com/khovratovich/equihash/ ; it provides a library, a C API and Python bindings. The cryptographic password storage SPHINX (pwdsphinx and libsphinx) depend upon equihash. Upstream started packaging work at https://github.com/stef/equihash/tree/master/debian . I'll work from that first packaging code, probably using a repository at salsa.debian.org . See https://www.ctrlc.hu/~stef/blog/posts/sphinx.html and https://nlnet.nl/project/OpaqueSphinxServer/ for more background information. See e.g. https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/31227294.pdf for a copy of the original article. The SPHINX project was funded through the NGI0 PET Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 825310. Bye, Joost