Found some interesting info on Groestl and Skein, so as it definitely is connected with MYR, want to share it with MYR comunity:
1. From another coin's thread ig0tik3d posted some links with info https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=525926.msg6122951#msg6122951
Good news for nVidia card owners:
we're working on a KILLER groestl, requiring a deeper understanding of the hash algo.
When done, everything else will be toast.
This would turn quark, X11, groestl, myriad-groestl into CUDA coins.
open sourcing it would be a problem. Last time we did this (heavycoin) the AMD guys caught up within a few days...
Christian
2. About security of Groestl and Skein algorythms:
Since I have a feeling you know the Grøstl algo intimately could you speak to its qualities and how it compares to other algos, esp Keecak? I need more basic info on what makes Grøstl great.
Grøstl was one of the 5 SHA3 finalists (Keccak was named the winner and called SHA3). See more details here:
http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/hash/sha-3/Round3/index.htmlGrøstl was the slowest of the 5 to implement in software. I would recommend that you quote page 13 of
http://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2012/NIST.IR.7896.pdf: For example, the best attacks on BLAKE, Keccak, and SHA-2
can be implemented in practice, whereas the best attacks on Grøstl, JH, and Skein would
require huge computational resources to implement, and cannot be fully verified.
The most important quality that I would like you to stress in your blog is the speed difference between CPU and GPU implementations. It is minimal across these cryptographic algorithms.
I think that this info is usefull talking about our coin