The other advantage is that once the seismic wave is detected, you can transmit that info at lightspeed vs the 10s of km/h that seismic waves propagate.
It's fine if you can invalidate the secret after some finite number of tries and block a particular actor from attacking many accounts. And there's no leaking cross sites if someone obtains and breaks the salted hash db.
delete: I'm just going to delete my comment, it was off the mark.
edit: I was not precise with my use of 'most' and I apologise. I meant most Americans would better relate to Communist, as that's what's taught to us and was in the news.
As someone growing up in the east german (I was 15 in 1989), I can tell for sure that we've learnt in school that the GDR is an socialist country on its way to the communism.
I don't think it did. Maybe the terms are being used differently in different cultures. Nothing wrong with that. The article is written with an American audience in mind.
No, that's not true. I've heard of the GDR being referred to as socialist plenty of times in Germany. The main party was even called the Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands (Socialist Unity Party of Germany).
The A8 doesn't have a dedicated crypto engine like Intel chips do (uncore I think they call it). The A8 does have a couple of AES specific instructions so each core can speed up the work, but they were executed speculatively and presumably are no longer done so.
