01-19-2020, 12:32 AM
Thank you both for taking the time to reply. It really helped me understand some areas where there were huge gaps in my understanding in general.
Some of the details of what I understand about your post are as follows. Did I get this right?
A significant portion of the hashing power of cryptocurrency networks involve specialized ASICs used to perform specialized algorithms that are not relevant to password cracking. It may be possible to distribute cracking work for miners that run generalized hardware such as GPU or re-programmable FPGAs, but there are several other challenges that would have to be addressed first.
Its hard to write smart contracts for cracking when we do not know how to prove that a miner expended effort cracking a hash for which the plaintext was not recovered.
Decentralized computing is a subset of distributed computing and may not be a prudent approach to distributing workloads such as password cracking.
From other forum posts I understand Brain and Hashtopolis can be useful wrappers / features for distributing cracking jobs across multiple nodes.
Some of the details of what I understand about your post are as follows. Did I get this right?
A significant portion of the hashing power of cryptocurrency networks involve specialized ASICs used to perform specialized algorithms that are not relevant to password cracking. It may be possible to distribute cracking work for miners that run generalized hardware such as GPU or re-programmable FPGAs, but there are several other challenges that would have to be addressed first.
Its hard to write smart contracts for cracking when we do not know how to prove that a miner expended effort cracking a hash for which the plaintext was not recovered.
Decentralized computing is a subset of distributed computing and may not be a prudent approach to distributing workloads such as password cracking.
From other forum posts I understand Brain and Hashtopolis can be useful wrappers / features for distributing cracking jobs across multiple nodes.