Re: [tahoe-dev] [cryptography] SNARKs, constant-time proofs of computation

2013-11-07 Thread Natanael
Resending since it bounced the last time. SCIPR is another one. http://www.scipr-lab.org/ If it became efficient it could be useful for mining in a Bitcoin fork (commonly called altcoins). Don't know what kind of computations you'd actually would want it to do, though. Most meaningful

Re: [tahoe-dev] [cryptography] SNARKs, constant-time proofs of computation

2013-11-07 Thread Jonathan Dill
If I'm reading this right, if someone is trying to crack the system, it might allow you to quickly discard a lot of the malicious data and reduce the impact on performance and the cracker learns nothing about the system in the process--something they really need with bitcoin / altcoin. When you