I wonder if MS finally adopted the methods from randomx-sniffer

they block downloading of xmrig now lol

sniffer would save them a lot of effort

hyc: surely that wouldn't help? I mean, you can just use a reverse proxy for the pool

or even access it over tor, or anything

So free CI services have never run into power viruses before?

seems like this is a first. among many other firsts ;)

using a proxy is a bit of a gabmel. the added latency may mean your solution isn't first to get published.

gamble*

hyc: a proxy will only add 2ms or so if it's correctly positioned geographically, even if it's all in software

lol, even the screenshot there shows randomx-benchmark as "malware"

What's the story with Argon2? Is it more "secure" than sha256? Or is that a stupid question?

I am asking as it came up in a project I am working on

Suggested as an alternative to sha256 as it is more secure against certain attacks. Is that true?

AFAIK argon2 is a KDF. It uses lots of RAM. SHA256 is meant to use very very little.

"Argon2 is a key derivation function that was selected as the winner of the Password Hashing Competition in July 2015"

so more secure for password hashing

presumably to prevent cracking leaked hashes of passwords

It was designed to be GPU-resistant but in reality only GPUs and ASICs mine Argon2 coins

hmm my version of hashcat doesn't support any mode for Argon

nope

jtr has it tho

it's supposed to slow down hashcat yea