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Wispy2891@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

HDDs used for chia mining or similar shitcoins have been used for just a full wipe to create the huge rainbow table or whatever the shitcoin needed and then left on idle with very little read activity for years

It’s not the typical “end of life” server HDD with 80k hours of 24/7 full use

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Wispy2891@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
This makes me think: if chia and similar coins simply generated the monopoly money by “finding the right numbers on the right rainbow table” … were they a covert way for some government to have a distributed password hacking network?

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- Natanael@infosec.pub ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Not really. Wrong type of math, not practical to reuse to break cryptography. There’s similar techniques that can be used against some algorithms, but not when set up like that.
  
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