"So insecure" is ~120 bits of security in this case. And no, "a forged milestone" is not enough to destroy the network, @ercwl exaggerated influence of the Coordinator.
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Replying to @c___f___b @bodlandhodl and
it's not 120 bits, is it though? with the normalization function, you've significantly reduced the hash space. also, nodes will blindly follow a signed Milestone with an index higher than the one they have, so it does have enough influence.
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Replying to @spudowiar @bodlandhodl and
Not 120 bits? Significantly reduced? Well... what is the correct number then?
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Replying to @c___f___b @bodlandhodl and
i have a number but, until i've completely verified it, i'm not committing to a number. regardless, why do you think the combinations of 27 trytes that sum to zero is 2^120?
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Replying to @spudowiar @c___f___b and
Every time I think I've encompassed the totality of the wtf that is Iota, something like this reminds me of something I'd forgotten.
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Replying to @nicksdjohnson @spudowiar and
I'm pretty sure you are just overdramatizing. Let's recall that you are an engineer. Express an opinion of an engineer, please, not of an opera diva.
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Replying to @c___f___b @spudowiar and
Sure: The need for a ‘normalisation’ mechanism arises from Iota’s frankly insane design decisions to abandon proven cryptographic primitives in favour of a rube-goldbergian DIY solution that forgoes basic safety provisions and common sense to protect against a theoretical threat.
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Replying to @nicksdjohnson @c___f___b and
…and has already been proven to be a bad idea through multiple vulnerabilities and other issues that the use of well understood and proven mechanisms would have avoided.
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Replying to @nicksdjohnson @spudowiar and
Thank you. Could you also link to a paper about those "multiple vulnerabilities"?
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Replying to @c___f___b @nicksdjohnson and
Does Nick have a conservative approach to coding and Sergey a progressive one? Perhaps you will never see eye to eye because you each look at this from a different perspective.
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this thread entertains me to no end coz it reminds me of this comic strip 

$IOTA #IOTAstrong. in other news, $EOS the “Ethereum-Killer”, as been dubbed by some, is launching in T-minus 2 days 

https://eoscountdown.com pic.twitter.com/qLA3ID18xG
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Replying to @c4chaos @mat_polaschek and
as in EOS, the coin with that fatal RCE that they downplayed because they have no understanding of modern security research (e.g. ROP attacks)? yeah, Nick must really be quaking in his boots
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