RPOW - Reusable Proofs of Work
Matt Crawford
crawdad at fnal.gov
Fri Aug 20 17:34:00 EDT 2004
>> I'm wondering how applicable RPOW is. Generally speaking, all
>> the practical applications I can think of for a proof-of-work
>> are defeated if proofs-of-work are storable, transferable, or
>> reusable.
>
> I have some code to play online games with cryptographic protection,
> cards and dice,
> and I am planning to modify it to let people make bets with RPOWs as
> the betting chips.
If you think of POW as a possible SPAM mitigation, how does the first
receiving MTA assure the next MTA in line that a message was "paid
for?" Certainly the mail relay doesn't want to do new work, but the
second MTA doesn't know that the first isn't a spambot.
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