Quote from: mthcl on November 17, 2015, 02:38:12 PM

Quote from: Hueristic on November 17, 2015, 02:02:28 PM

Sergue, have you ever worked on engineering bio-weapons?

No, that's another guy with the same name. If you continue searching, you'll find a famous violinist as well - that's not me.

Thx, Could you link your academic background please?

Quote from: iotatoken on November 17, 2015, 02:31:14 PM

Quote from: Hueristic on November 17, 2015, 02:02:28 PM

I've been wondering when this would be addressed. Applicable QC is alot closer than people realize.

Sergue, have you ever worked on engineering bio-weapons?

Also I don't quite see the rational for the need to create a completely different method as opposed to changing to a QC resistant algorithm such as polynomial.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography
http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/SMA/ispab/documents/minutes/2015-06/ispab_june-11_quantum_lchen.pdf
https://www.cs.elte.hu/blobs/diplomamunkak/msc_mat/2012/nemes_antal.pdf

Could you rephrase the question?

Are you wondering why we did the Tangle instead of Blockchain?

I am wondering why the need to replace the blockchain at this time. I am not sold on the idea that yet another coin (token ATM) needs to be created in order to solve the only serious issue I see with current solutions. I am also wondering if current solutions can be upgraded to this tangle with a fork? I understand that alot of work has obviously been put into this effort but I can see a few other methods to monetize this than the creation of yet another coin. Why not propose to the larger Alt projects they morph into this tangle for a fee and use them as a testbed to prove to bitcoin that this would be a hard fork worth pushing. If this were accomplished I see the funding flowing and the infrastructure will not have to be built from the ground up. I am still trying to digest the whitepaper (the math is beyond me) so could you list the bullet points for the advantage/disadvantages v/s blockchain tech.

Also

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that one needs to check in order to nd a suitable hash for issuing a transaction
is not so huge, it is only around 3
8
. The gain of eciency for an \ideal" quantum
computer would be therefore of order 3
4
= 81, which is already quite acceptable (also,
remember that (
p
N
) could easily mean 10
p
N
or so). Also, the algorithm is such
that the time to nd a nonce is not much larger than the time needed for other tasks
necessary to issue a transaction, and the latter part is much more resistant agains
quantum computing.
Therefore, the above discussion suggests that the tangle provides a much better
protection against an adversary with a quantum computer compared to the (Bitcoin)
blockchain

Saying the time is not much larger is not quantitative. Bloat and TTC are subjective. I'm glad you added the qualifier "Suggests" as I do not see it proven but like I said I cannot follow the math, that is for smarter people than me.

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Goddamn I hate quoting from PDF's why do you people continue to use them? Stinking browser plugin failed and I lost all those tabs in the window with the PDF. PDF's are unsafe.

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I finish redoing this later as I have to flush the cache and remove this browser from memory to recover stability and I have pages to backup before that.