[cryptography] Scrypt hardware optimized miner

2015-06-29 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) - lists
Now that Scrypt has been used by cryptocurrency a new generation of hardware optimized miner (that can be converted to password-cracking) went out https://www.hashcoins.com/buy-scrypt-miners/ . The questions are: a) Is scrypt always safe enough? b) Which scrypt parameters should be tweaked in or

Re: [cryptography] Scrypt hardware optimized miner

2015-06-29 Thread Solar Designer
On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 09:40:56AM +0200, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) - lists wrote: > Now that Scrypt has been used by cryptocurrency a new generation of > hardware optimized miner (that can be converted to password-cracking) > went out https://www.hashcoins.com/buy-scrypt-miners/ . What's so new a