On Friday 28 Dec 2012 13:32:11 Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > Am Dienstag, 25. Dezember 2012, 07:49:51 schrieb Fabio Gonzalez: > > > Darn, 10.000€ is just what the BKA (german central police) spends yearly > > > to > > > surveill skype… > > > > > > So they could easily afford making every second freenet node a > > > police-node. > > > > If each node to ask others give the "plain text", which creates a > > really small hash (we can ignore bits of a larger hash). We may > > significantly increase the cost per node. The problem is not injurious > > to the good users. > > I don’t understand what you mean. Could you rephrase it? > Fabio is talking about hashcash: A challenge to find X such that H(X) = Y (for the last N bits of both sides).
The problem is hashcash is very expensive for regular users (who may have slow CPUs) and very cheap for attackers (who have fast GPUs). So it's not really a usable solution. Maybe as a component - but the puzzles would have to be very easy, we don't want to delay users getting onto Freenet.
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