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RPOW - Reusable Proofs of Work

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the interesting-projects dept.

mitd writes "Hal Finney is inviting folks to test drive his new hashcash-based server rpow.net. " The RPOW system provides for proof of work (POW) tokens to be reused. A POW token is something that takes a relatively long time to compute but which can be checked quickly." Hal's security model paper is well worth the read and his proof of concept code is available for download. "

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  1. Re: RPOW - Reusable Proofs of Work by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hal's security model paper is well worth the read and his proof of concept code is available for download.

    "I'm sorry Dave, but I can't let you download that..."

  2. /.ed by Dibblah · · Score: 5, Funny

    Okaaay... So it's a server that's *meant* to serve computationally expensive 'tokens'. And you post it on ./ . Niiice.

  3. Proofs Of Work are few and far between by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    How about Proofs Of Not Working? Got plenty of those.