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LatticeAnimalyesterday at 5:24 PM2 repliesview on HN

Some of the asymmetry might be regained if anubis had thousands of variations of PoW algorithms, each different enough that they must be solved independently.

I wonder if AI might be able to come up with new PoW algorithms in a nightly CI job so every day is a different puzzle...


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inigyouyesterday at 6:15 PM

You can do this on yours. Just have the client and server add an extra "2" after the challenge key or something. A different client which extracts the challenge key and does its own processing will only generate invalid responses.

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CursedSiliconyesterday at 6:43 PM

...That sounds like entropy? As in, the thing computers are bad at (truly random numbers) and /dev/urandom in your kernel already spits out an approximation of?