[143237] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Proof of Work -> atmospheric carbon
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Fri Jan 30 19:06:28 2009
Date: 30 Jan 2009 23:03:26 -0000
From: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <1b587cab0901291832kd132e29uc7a58c4abbc5e7d@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: benl@google.com
>Richard Clayton and I claim that PoW doesn't work:
>http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rnc1/proofwork.pdf
I bumped into Cynthia Dwork, who originallyinvented PoW, at a CEAS
meeting a couple of years ago, and she said she doesn't think it
works, either.
R's,
John
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