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Eric Hop 36 posts

Having been in crypto space since 2013 I soaked up everything I could find. I read most of the whitepapers out there and quickly identified a bunch of serious shortcomings in blockchain technology. When a friend pointed me to IOTA in June 2017 I was blown away at how far this tech was beyond anything out there.

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IOTΛlias, a wallet protocol for implementing public and private aliases

Eric Hop Mar 1, 2018

In my previous two articles I explored possible solutions to the IOTA donation address problem and the IOTA address alias problem . Since both solutions were written up as kind of spur-of-the-moment articles there were still a few…

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Debunking the ‘IOTA Vulnerability Report’

Eric Hop Feb 25, 2018

For many months now we constantly see the same report showing up in FUD articles about IOTA. The report is continuously being used to show that IOTA is vulnerable to theft because the signing process uses the Curl hash function, which is…

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Limiting the overlap of IOTA signatures when double spending

Eric Hop Feb 20, 2018

IOTA uses Winternitz one-time signatures to sign off on spending iotas from an address. The nature of these signatures is such that during the signing process 50% of the private key to that address is exposed. This is normally no…

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Solving the IOTA donations problem by using IOTA cheques

Eric Hop Feb 17, 2018

#iotapower The donation problem For the longest time one of the problems with IOTA has been the impossibility of having a secure and fixed reusable donation address. This is entirely due to the single-signing nature of IOTA addresses. You…

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Solving the IOTA address aliasing problem by using IOTA cheques

Eric Hop Feb 10, 2018

#IotaAlias The alias problem After solving the IOTA donations problem in a previous article I was left with one more enigma: how to solve the IOTA alias problem. People have been requesting for a while now to be able to use a simple…

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