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How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's legal block

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Re: How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's legal block

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Post by euyyn »

NetStrikeForce wrote: post #556
euyyn wrote: post #396

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe no one has challenged it because they don't see a problem with it?

Of course there's no problem. There's no problem with the Catalan either, apart from the fact that it's Catalan.

Again, neither of us are constitutional lawyers, but for an argument like that you have to present and challenge the arguments used in the actual sentence. Conspiracy theories without backing are only useful to those who gain political capital out of them.

And for the record, I read that, back in the day, Ciudadanos asked the Defensor del Pueblo to bring the Andalusian estatuto to the Tribunal Constitucional. Not sure if he did, or who can and cannot bring laws to their court.

Re: How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's legal block

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Post by Bicho »

severino wrote: post #193
pepon wrote: post #184

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are also many many people and windows without flags ;) Once they become an independent country, it will be one where ~50% of the people doesn't want to belong to it. Let's see what kind of "democracia" will they apply there.

Well, that's happening already: half the population does not want to belong to the state. The "democracia" here is you don't vote and never will. What can be worse than that?

Well; just a point; inside Catalonia there's also a part that wants to separate from Catalonia; the Aran Valley; with their own culture, history and language; and Catalonian Government has never ever wanted to hear about that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val_d'Aran

Indeed, in the brand new Catalonian Independency Law, it's stated at the very beginning that Republic of Catalonia is (will be) a non-severable country; exactly like the Spanish Constitution article that doesn't allow Catalonian referendum... Just committing the same mistakes that they denounce?

Re: How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's legal block

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Post by vicenteherrera »

The original article doesn't take into account that DNI letter is calculated from the previous DNI digits with a known formula. So when you choose the numbers, you already know the letter. See for example: https://gist.github.com/afgomez/5691823

So Instead of: 10^10 * 23 * 365 * 4 = 33580 * 10^10 possible combinations , we have 10^10 * 365 * 4 = 1460 * 10^10. And we can represent it with 44 bits instead of 48.

To explore all possible combinations, we need then 1460 * 10^10 * 1715 = 25039 * 10^12 hashes, instead of 575897 * 10^12 hashes

With AntMiner S9, we can do all hashes in: 25039 * 10^12 / 28 * 10^9 = 10.3 days.

If we want to specifically scam a target neighbourhood (imagine sending an email telling people "your local bank in your neighborhood asks you to reset your password), we can choose a fixed zip code, and all this could be guessed with a less powerfull machine (someone else can do the math).

Re: How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's legal block

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Post by bartolo2 »

I would have used scrypt (memory bound and therefore hardly scalable in ASICs/FPGAs) with a higher round count, say that it takes ~1s to calculate the hash. That way bruteforce is infeasible these days. Also I would have used other sparse information such as street number that hardly can be connected to a particular person.
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