Custom Chips Could Be the Shovels in a Bitcoin Gold Rush

[Peter Gutmann]

Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> forwards:

>http://www.technologyreview.com/news/508061/custom-chips-could-be-the-shovels-in-a-bitcoin-gold-rush/
>
>Custom Chips Could Be the Shovels in a Bitcoin Gold Rush

I guess the main lesson from this (well, the second lesson after the fact that
Extraordinary Popular Delusions needs a new chapter) is that if you're doing
password hashing, use anything but SHA-256.

Peter.