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Re: [ANN][XEL] Elastic Project - The Decentralized Supercomputer
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HunterMinerCrafter
on 25/09/2016, 15:58:38 UTC
However, you are right, the same computation power does not correspond to the same chance to "shuffle" the correct solution.
When I know which input numbers constitute a correct solution *before*, I can screen the entire random number stream without actually evaluating a single line of the program allowing a speedup by a factor of at most WCET. That would be a variant of the "Faster Algorithm Attack" outlined earlier. This is one problem, that would be great to eliminate (somehow) ... I think noone has come up with a solution to the FAA so far  Wink But after all, this attack is just a "race" where the the "attacker" can merely increase his chances to find Bounty certificates.

Correct, without being able to pre-compute it just becomes, on its own, a variant of FAA.  It is worth noting that, currently, the ratio by which the publisher can increase his chances is quite significant.

I think in combination with another attack it might still have some implications.  I'm still working on a "useful" approach, however.