The Bitcoin Piñata

Post by scott_karana » Tue, Feb 10, 2015, 7:48 PM UTC

Cederfjard wrote: post #44

eterm wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But oddly not http://www.cryptopals.com/

Not so odd, I don't always use nor redirect www either (well I do if it's for a client, but otherwise I usually can't be bothered). Edit: But I do get 404s when I click the "language-links" on the challenge pages, like http://cryptopals.com/sets/1/challenges/1/ruby . What are those anyways?

Post by Apofis » Tue, Feb 10, 2015, 8:27 PM UTC

Post by amirmc » Tue, Feb 10, 2015, 8:36 PM UTC

Apofis wrote: post #63

I'm more interested in the OS they hosted their site on. Mirage, developed in OCaml for the cloud. The part that really interested me: "If a sudden spike in traffic occurs, the web-servers can be configured to create and deploy copies of themselves to service the demand. This auto-scaling happens so quickly that an incoming connection can trigger the creation of new server and the new server can then handle that requ…

Post by ikeboy » Tue, Feb 10, 2015, 8:38 PM UTC

amirmc wrote: post #60

joshu wrote: post #40

The other interesting bit is that if you really want to chip in you could send bitcoin TO that address to sweeten the pot.

I bet the authors never considered that as part of their threat models.

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Feb 10, 2015, 8:41 PM UTC

Apofis wrote: post #63

I'm more interested in the OS they hosted their site on. Mirage, developed in OCaml for the cloud. The part that really interested me: "If a sudden spike in traffic occurs, the web-servers can be configured to create and deploy copies of themselves to service the demand. This auto-scaling happens so quickly that an incoming connection can trigger the creation of new server and the new server can then handle that requ…