[Blocks-development] crazy anti-flooding idea:

[Spencer Jr., M. <sp...@ac...>]

CPU-bind the Eve clients!  ^_^

Is there some kind of cryptographic function we can require to be used with
all broadcast messages passed, which is difficult to create (perhaps ~5
seconds of P3-500's processing to encode) but not difficult to decode?

Could this be reversed, so someone could create a large number of packets
that are more difficult to decode than to encode (even though they'd all be
bogus packets) so they'd CPU-bind the good client instead?

Do we want to require encoding only for people who originate the packets,
where packet routers just pass the data along?  Or should all broadcast data
(which should be protected in a special way) be encoded every time it gets
routed?

What do you guys think?

--Michael Spencer
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