hi people i am unfamiliar with this stuff. how many people can see/ read this here?
Greg Curcio On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Mirimir <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/01/2014 12:10 PM, Derric Atzrott wrote: > > <SNIP> > > >> Even imposing a nontrivial cost for creating accounts (say 10 BTC) would > >> not help. Determined adversaries would pay it. And of course, that would > >> exclude numerous innocents who wouldn't or couldn't pay. > > > > Yeah, I was just listing off some items that we came up with > brainstorming > > over the past few years. Clearly that item was cut fairly quickly. Some > > type of proof of work might work, so long as it was expensive enough to > > deter attackers after the first few times while still cheap enough to > > generate just once for well behaved actors. > > Wikimedia could authenticate users with GnuPG keys. As part of the > process of creating a new account, Wikimedia could randomly specify the > key ID (or even a longer piece of the fingerprint) of the key that the > user needs to generate. Generating the key would require arbitrarily > great effort, but would impose negligible cost on Wikimedia or users > during subsequent use. Although there's nothing special about such GnuPG > keys as proof of work, they're more generally useful. > -- > tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] > To unsubscribe or change other settings go to > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk > -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
