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NDSS
2003
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Moderately Hard, Memory-Bound Functions
A resource may be abused if its users incur little or no cost. For example, e-mail abuse is rampant because sending an e-mail has negligible cost for the sender. It has been sugge...
Martín Abadi, Michael Burrows, Ted Wobber
FSTTCS
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Moderately Hard Functions: From Complexity to Spam Fighting
A key idea in cryptography is using hard functions in order to obtain secure schemes. The theory of hard functions (e.g. one-way functions) has been a great success story, and the ...
Moni Naor
TON
1998
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13 years 5 months ago
On variations of queue response for inputs with the same mean and autocorrelation function
— This paper explores the variations in mean queue length for stationary arrival processes with the same mean and autocorrelation functions, or equivalently, the same mean and po...
Bruce Hajek, Linhai He
AFRICACRYPT
2008
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
An (Almost) Constant-Effort Solution-Verification Proof-of-Work Protocol Based on Merkle Trees
Proof-of-work schemes are economic measures to deter denial-of-service attacks: service requesters compute moderately hard functions the results of which are easy to check by the ...
Fabien Coelho
FOCS
2000
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Zaps and Their Applications
A zap is a two-round, public coin witness-indistinguishable protocol in which the first round, consisting of a message from the verifier to the prover, can be fixed “once and...
Cynthia Dwork, Moni Naor