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I think he ended up only spending around $5-10K on compute. I'd have to check with Nash.

Yeah, he knew it was a long passphrase.

There's no way that the AccessData job I had would exist today. Most services are online, with data encrypted in transit and stored in the cloud. TLS security has improved dramatic…

I kept a Cryptonomicon!

lol yeah

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Glad to hear it!

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That little animation was put there by the guy who hired me. We got rid of it in the Password Recovery ToolKit that combined all the modules I'd written into a single tool. In that…

He actually tried that without success.

I'm in the USA. He paid us for some work up front and agreed to pay the rest on delivery of the key. He expected to spend most of the $100K he'd budgeted on GPU costs, so we got mu…

Yeah, and it's why I left that job for something else.

Hahaha, thanks!

Exactly. We created some zip files we knew the password to and then checked that our code found the right one. Each stage would generate a bunch of files with different candidate r…

RChain is an Ethereum competitor. It aims to fix several problems with Ethereum. First, it will scale better: Ethereum currently runs every contract on every computer running a nod…