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Re:Chrome Ships WebGPU by marktangotango on Thursday April 06, 2023 @09:05AM (#35467826)
So someone can put javascript in a page to compute equihash, autolykos, cuckoo cycle, etc? Is there a way to limit this?
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Re:Chrome Ships WebGPU by dagmx on Thursday April 06, 2023 @11:30AM (#35469726)
They could already do that though?
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Re:Chrome Ships WebGPU by marktangotango on Thursday April 06, 2023 @12:01PM (#35470308)
But not using the client side gpu!
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Re:Chrome Ships WebGPU by JayStavis on Thursday April 06, 2023 @03:02PM (#35472868)
I believe webGL "cryptojacking" as it's called, indeed is a thing. Not sure on prevalence though or to what extent this introduction makes it more viable for malicious actors.

I'm not sure if lots of hashing algos are gpu-ready or optimized either.

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