DDoSCoin: Proof of malicious work

[Steve Kinney]

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Oh fuck.  Time to advance the Digital Doomsday Clock.  How many days
past midnight was it yesterday?

https://www.usenix.org/conference/woot16/workshop-program/presentation/w
ustrow

or

https://tinyurl.com/ddoscoin

"In this paper, we present DDoSCoin, which is a cryptocurrency with a
malicious proof-of-work. DDoSCoin allows miners to prove that they
have contributed to a distributed denial of service attack against
specific target servers. This proof involves making a large number of
TLS connections to a target server, and using cryptographic responses
to prove that a large number of connections has been made. Like
proof-of-work puzzles, these proofs are inexpensive to verify, and can
be made arbitrarily difficult to solve."

CliffNotes version:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/12/ddoscoin_cryptocurrency/

:o)



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