Re:IOTA Surges Past Ripple
by eternalban on Monday December 11, 2017 @03:07AM
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fwiw, was bored and exploring for the first time the (my God) toxic social timelines of these crypto coins and happened to end with IOTA and the story of the home grown hash function. Just posting what I just read about this topic and not an +/- either way on the topic at hand:
Sergey Ivancheglo (@Come-from-Beyond) claims the collisions were intentional and for the purposes of IOTA the hash merely had to be a one way function:
He addresses his base-3 number system design decision as well (by appealing to authority no less :)
> name it curl
In above he references Curl-P and the final letter (see his last gist) also explicitly asks that the MIT security blogger use the full name which she declined.
Sergey Ivancheglo (@Come-from-Beyond) claims the collisions were intentional and for the purposes of IOTA the hash merely had to be a one way function:
https://gist.github.com/Come-from-Beyond/a84ab8615aac13a4543...
He addresses his base-3 number system design decision as well (by appealing to authority no less :)
> name it curl
In above he references Curl-P and the final letter (see his last gist) also explicitly asks that the MIT security blogger use the full name which she declined.