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It would certainly help in some cases, and act as a delay in some others. It pretty much wouldn't stop a targeted attack since they quite probably don't really
by swish_bob 7y ago
It would certainly help in some cases, and act as a delay in some others. It pretty much wouldn't stop a targeted attack since they quite probably don't really care about how much CPU use each request is using, and you literally have to publish the code to generate the hash, so it makes it pretty easy to reverse engineer.
- beiller 7y agoIts not reverse engineer-able. Its basically "proof-of-work" as in all participants know the algorithm, you just make attackers spend CPU time to use your site which would slow them down or cost money.