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A description of known problems in Satoshi Nakamoto's paper, "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System", as well as notes on terminology changes and how Bitcoin's implementation differs from that described in the paper.

Abstract

The longest chain not only serves as proof of the sequence of events witnessed, but proof that it came from the largest pool of CPU power.

@chanj
chanj / AWS Security Resources
Last active June 21, 2021 09:49
AWS Security Resources
INTRO
I get asked regularly for good resources on AWS security. This gist collects some of these resources (docs, blogs, talks, open source tools, etc.). Feel free to suggest and contribute.
Short Link: http://tiny.cc/awssecurity
Official AWS Security Resources
* Security Blog - http://blogs.aws.amazon.com/security/
* Security Advisories - http://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/
* Security Whitepaper (AWS Security Processes/Practices) - http://media.amazonwebservices.com/pdf/AWS_Security_Whitepaper.pdf
* Security Best Practices Whitepaper - http://media.amazonwebservices.com/AWS_Security_Best_Practices.pdf
@barn
barn / nmap-rspec-fail.rb
Last active August 29, 2015 14:03 — forked from garethr/nmap-rspec.rb
Building on @garethr's work on nmap-rspec, this adds being able to do multiple hosts, rather than just a single IP/host. Just specify more of those blocks...
[ben@laptop:nmap-rspec2]% rspec -f d -c nmap-rspec.rb
the scan of the IP ranges
Starting Nmap 6.46 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2014-07-06 23:21 EDT
Nmap scan report for 141.101.117.49
Host is up (0.26s latency).
PORT STATE SERVICE
20/tcp filtered ftp-data
21/tcp filtered ftp
22/tcp filtered ssh
@plentz
plentz / nginx.conf
Last active April 24, 2024 11:15
Best nginx configuration for improved security(and performance)
# to generate your dhparam.pem file, run in the terminal
openssl dhparam -out /etc/nginx/ssl/dhparam.pem 2048
@weavejester
weavejester / gist:1001206
Created May 31, 2011 20:27
Clojure on Heroku
~/$ lein new ring-on-heroku
Created new project in: /home/jim/Development/ring-on-heroku
~/$ cd ring-on-heroku
~/ring-on-heroku$ echo 'web: lein run -m ring-on-heroku.core' > Procfile
~/ring-on-heroku$ cat > src/ring_on_heroku/core.clj
(ns ring-on-heroku.core
(:use ring.util.response
ring.adapter.jetty))
(defn app [req]