Taylor Hornby

Current status: ``` NAME STATUS CURRENT VERSION NEWER VERSIONS packages skipped vendorcrate skipped librustzcash skipped crate_sapling_crypto skipped crate_zip32 skipped native_cctools skipped bdb OUT OF DATE 6.2.23 ['6.2.38', '18.1.32'] boost OUT...

TODO: We can delete depends/packages/crate_sapling_crypto.mk and depends/packages/crate_zip32.mk according to @str4d: https://github.com/zcash/zcash/pull/3870#discussion_r370829177

Current status (postponed ones have not been analyzed): ``` NAME STATUS CURRENT VERSION NEWER VERSIONS packages skipped vendorcrate skipped native_cctools skipped bdb POSTPONED 6.2.23 [18.1.40 (postponed)] boost POSTPONED 1.70.0 [1.71.0...

A consequence of not having this threshold is https://github.com/zcash/zcash/issues/4538

If you have a guess for a_pk and rho then some kind of a Grover search probably lets you find the 192-bit r in ~2^96 time on a quantum computer....

Grover can also be used to speed up collision-finding to the cube-root rather than the square-root, e.g. http://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/9705002.pdf (Høyer was my quantum computing prof and this was on the final...

Another consideration for post-quantum Zcash is the proof-of-work. A Grover search could speed up finding solutions to Bitcoin's PoW, but [this paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1710.10377.pdf) suggests Bitcoin ASICs are so fast that it...

Yeah, this is really annoying. Just don't clear the terminal when it compacts, let my terminal keep its buffer of past output so that I can scroll up as far...