I agree with Brian here on this issue. This is clearly impractical for
IoT devices. For many of those devices we are talking about 32 KB (in
total).

On 06/29/2016 09:25 PM, Brian Smith wrote:
> Dmitry Khovratovich <khovratov...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> It allows cheap and memoryless verification by the server even though the
>> puzzle solving guaranteely requires dozens of MB of RAM from a client
> 
> I feel like this is impractical simply because lots of people are
> building HTTPS clients that don't even have dozens of MB of RAM total.
> I think we should avoid doing anything that requires the client to
> have more than ~16KB of memory total to devote to TLS stuff.
> Otherwise, we force the internet to have an architecture where all
> small devices require a smart proxy to solve these puzzles for them
> and do other things.
> 
> Cheers,
> Brian
> 

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