phc-discussions - Re: [PHC] Asymmetric proof-of-work based on the Generalized Birthday problem

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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 08:36:45 +1000
From: Ben Harris <mail@...rr.is>
To: discussions@...sword-hashing.net
Subject: Re: [PHC] Asymmetric proof-of-work based on the Generalized Birthday problem

On 29 September 2015 at 19:28, Dmitry Khovratovich <khovratovich@...il.com>
wrote:

>
>  For example, the proof for 700-MB memory is 148 bytes long. The
> implementation exists but is not optimized.
>
>
> Did you consider compressing the xi's in the solution? A quick try with
Golomb/Rice Coding would save about 18 bytes in the n=144, k=5 case above
(only 12%). The compression is much better for larger k - ~40% reduction
for n=176, k=10. (I'm assuming that the xi's are randomly distributed, and
that I've read it correctly that they will be in natural order)

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