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What are the cryptographic functions in IOTA(Tangle)

I'm wondering what and where cryptographic functions are used in IOTA? Because from what I understand Tangle is mostly based on DAGs where the tips are chosen using MCMC algorithm which is bayesian type of algorithm. I don't see how cryptography is…
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IOTA Seed less then 81 characters

i bought some iota late 2017 but the seed i created at the time on the desktop wallet was less then 81 characters and it worked fine, i thought id wait until the official wallet came out and would then move, so i downloaded new wallet on my phone,…
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Tangle explorer transaction value

What does the "value" field of the tangle explorer indicates? The linked transaction reports a value of 1+ B USD. What is this value referring to?
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How do I keep IOTA secure?

I am setting up a website where users buy and sell IOTA with USD. I've gotten some general safety tips about keeping your seed secure but I wanted to know what I could do to be safe from hackers, seeing that I will be holding my users' IOTA and can…
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Coordicide: Would using public key encryption as a mechanism for node identity impact Iota's quantum resistance?

per the white paper In order to identify nodes, it is necessary to introduce global node identities. Tothis end, we envision using common public key cryptography to sign certain dataand to link it to its issuing node in a tamper proof way. …
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IOTA Trinity Wallet Installation fails

the installation of the Trinity Wallet does not work. After the download, a white window appears without input possibility or registration
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How can I get back my balance showing in my IOTA wallet?

I use IOTA Wallet Version 2.5.7 (2.5.7). I know I had 101.89800000 IOT in my wallet (my cointracking.info account confirms). I was able to log into my account, but my balance is showing 0. I tried steps outlined here:…
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Best Place To Post Tutorial Announcement

I made a tutorial for working with IOTA at the BASH console running NodeJS scripts. Can someone please tell me the best places to anounce the tutorial and also the best places to ask for people examine it for errors? Thanks
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Making An Offline Transaction At The NodeJS Console

I am making an offline wallet web app to use with my open source airgapped encrypted device - the PrivateKeyVault. The web app will be modeled after this one which is seen used in this video. The reason I don't just use the wallet app above is…
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Cracking seed with list of addresses and indexes

I have an open source offline airgapped encrypted device for signing transactions. Seeds are stored on this device. Signed transactions are passed to an online machine as a parade of qr-codes for broadcasting to the Tangle. The online device…
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How to attach a message multiple times (say 200 times) with the tangle using MAM

What I am trying to do is to attach a payload to the tangle using MAM protocol. If I run this loop for k=5 times it works fine i.e., data is attached to the Tangle. I confirmed that the data is attached by writing fetching code as well and it works…
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How can I make my Bluetooth enabled IOT device sign a transaction so that POW and everything else can be done by another device?

Is there some kind of IOTA C library just for signing transactions? The IOT device in question does not have Wifi and is too weak computationally to do POW. I want the device itself sign the tx so that I can "prove" that the data in the transaction…
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How many confirmations are required for funds to be received?

If I am not mistaken no single block in the public tangle is ever fully confirmed. What exactly determines the treshhold when funds are actually received, making the transaction relatively irreversable and "complete" in most peoples eyes? Does the…
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How can I fork MAM channel?

This https://blog.iota.org/introducing-masked-authenticated-messaging-e55c1822d50e says that any channel can be splitting. Also this https://medium.com/coinmonks/iota-mam-eloquently-explained-d7505863b413 says that you can fork channel. I want to…
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Enable ZMQ in docker IRI node

I've set up a private tangle following the guide on iotaledger/compass. Now I'm trying to enable zmq. I tried to change the following in the 03_run_coordinator.sh file. Changes are adding the 5556 port and the zmq_enabled configuration. docker pull…
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