Found on 4 chan thread. Interesting!!!
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I'm no expert, but wouldn't it already be in the blockchain if this guy had half a brain (and we know he's no idiot)? Releasing it would mean just releasing a decryption key, no?
Correct. OTOH, both BTC and ETH's blockchain size is 300~400 GB. And that took years to build. This "drop" is supposed to be a few TBs? Something doesn't add up.
Possibly, buy not necessarily. The encryption key could trigger the data dump, or the data decryption of 31tb on the blockchain network. Either way is going to take time with the data volume involved.
Think of it this way, most of us think wrt data in terms of gigabytes at most, and text file docs like a word file rarely grow bigger than a few 1000th of that. If its all text files, emails etc at 1mb each, this would be 31 million 1mb word docs to decrypt. Thats best case scenario, the files are probably smaller in a lot of scenarios.
Either method will take a while to resolve because of the data sizes in play. I work with huge data volumes regularly, and its difficult to process that fast. Decrypting that many files, verifying the decrypted versions, and all the other aspects of blockchain activity will take days if not weeks to complete.
It might be (and probably is) far more efficient to decrypt the batch first, then transmit it. Either way is likely to take days on a blockchain network to complete though.
Thanks.