[Hardware] The market of ASICs (One GigaKey / Second?)

[Elektron]

On 10 Aug, 2004, at 10:09, Dan Oetting wrote:

> I'm still waiting for this or any verification to be implemented and 
> smile every time I here about bogus clients racking up stat points.

Which is really easy to do.

There's also no easy way to verify bogus results - you could force the 
client to check for a key in the block which causes the encrypted 
output to match some 32-bit value specified by the server, and if it 
tried to 'cheat', something in stats would know. But no matter what you 
do, it's always possible for some blocks to get into stats (until 
you're found out and the blocks are purged).

The current method is probably 'good enough', though. With register 
usage a concern on the x86 and others, the penalty isn't really worth 
the trouble, since all blocks are checked twice anyway.

- Purr