Quote from: roslinpl on June 24, 2015, 06:08:49 PM

Quote from: satnof on June 22, 2015, 12:38:42 AM

What if bitcoin miners are being used to generate rainbow tables for cracking password hashes. It is a known fact that with a rainbow table you can crack a password hash in seconds rather than years, and in big-O notation brute-forcing passwords takes O(n²) time which would also take years for a 14+ character password.

Now to generate a rainbow table with character set 0-9, a-z, A-Z, + all special characters (@!#$%^&*(){}/*-+_=) would also take years to generate in advance if you don't have access to a distributed grid of computers dividing the processing power between themselves. And it costs quite abit of BTC to buy processing power from the cloud. And coming to think of it, aren't the bitcoins miners doing just that?

Here's the genius part. What if the CIA/NSA devised a way so that the bitcoin miners are actually generating the rainbow hashes needed to crack any password up to 64 characters in length. Wouldn't that practically give them access to any corporation + home wifi + any account needed?

I can think of a multitude of applications to the bitcoin distributed network, not excluding DDOSing, generating hashes for different types of decoding algorithms such as MD5, SHA1 (which are the most commonly used to protect passwords in databases), etc. Even the term that miners are generating hashes gives you the slight doubt that, what if?

Alright you might argue that now developers are using salt mechanism, but still...its food for thought. Any fanboys who read the code, care to give their opinion? Now don't get me wrong, I'm just inserting the notion of what if? I quite like the uses of bitcoin myself.

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Here's the genius part. What if the CIA/NSA devised a way so that the bitcoin miners are actually generating the rainbow hashes needed to crack any password up to 64 characters in length. Wouldn't that practically give them access to any corporation + home wifi + any account needed?

So far as I know Bitcoin is open-source project and code was reviewed thousand times by great coders from around the world.
So far nobody found any hidden traps. What I am saying is your speculation is senseless.

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Wouldn't that practically give them access to any corporation + home wifi + any account needed?

Are you serious?

mostly asking about home wifi part

Come on ...

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@Satoshi, please tell us one day how much were you laughing from all of those speculations

But well ... most of those speculations are not funny at all I must say and pointless.

Best regards.

What if its not the NSA or CIA the bitcoin miners are working for... but actually North Korea!

Possible?

OR....

What if Bitcoin was just an idea tossed out on the table by asic/wafer / hardware and chip manufacturers.

Guys... what if we designed a roadmap to create a product that the user creates themselves...

We allow people to: PRINT MONEY.

Who wouldnt want this product right? They will buy it.

Now... how can we make it even more profitable.

GUY 1: Print a bunch for ourselves in the begining and wait to see if it takes off.

VP: Love it great next idea!

GUY 2: We could make it get more and more difficult, you know the math stuff, so they are always having to spend more money to reinvest in more chips and wafers and asics.

VP: LOVE IT GREAT IDEA!

Guy 3: How about we make it very power consuming... I'm thinking maybe we could work out some kickbacks from the major global power providers...

VP: MONEY GUY MONEY! BUT QUESTION... WHAT DOES IT DO??? All this power, hardware, chips, work?

Guy 1: It gets us f'n rich.

What if?