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EagleSong PoW and its purpose #2

Open vu3rdd opened 5 years ago

vu3rdd commented 5 years ago

It looks like EagleSong is a brand new hash function that does not have peer reviewed security properties though EagleSong combines ideas from Keccak and BLAKE2. My questions are:

  1. What are the goals for creating a new PoW? Is ASIC resistance a goal or a non-goal? Or Energy efficiency?
  2. Why not use an existing hash function that has published/peer reviewed security properties?
keks commented 5 years ago

There is a bit of motivation in this medium article. I agree that the RFC should contain some background, or at least it should be clear where motivation and design rationale can be found.