Re:mCaptcha – Proof of work based, privacy respecting CAPTCH...
by tromp on Thursday August 04, 2022 @06:34AM
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Have you considered using a memory hard PoW instead of a computation bound one?
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Re:mCaptcha – Proof of work based, privacy respecting CAPTCH...
by realaravinth on Thursday August 04, 2022 @07:12AM
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Only recently, yes. WASM performance is tricky. A memory-heavy algorithm will DoS visitors.
That said, there are protections within mCaptcha to protect against ASICS(PoW result has expiry and variable difficulty scaling), but they are yet to be validated. If they should prove to be insufficient, then I'll try a different approach with memory-heavy algorithms.
disclosure: author of mcaptcha