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Reconstructing hash reversal based proof of work schemes

Jeff Green, Joshua Juen, Omid Fatemieh, Ravinder Shankesi, Dong Jin, Carl A. Gunter
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Proceedings of the 4th USENIX conference on Large-scale exploits and emergent threats, LEET’11, 2011

@inproceedings{green2011reconstructing,

   title={Reconstructing Hash Reversal-Based Proof of Work Schemes},

   author={Green, J. and Juen, J. and Fatemieh, O. and Shankesi, R. and Jin, D. and Gunter, C.A.},

   booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th USENIX conference on Large-scale exploits and emergent threats},

   pages={10–10},

   year={2011},

   organization={USENIX Association}

}

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Proof of work schemes use client puzzles to manage limited resources on a server and provide resilience to denial of service attacks. Attacks utilizing GPUs to inflate computational capacity, known as resource inflation, are a novel and powerful threat that dramatically increase the computational disparity between clients. This disparity renders proof of work schemes based on hash reversal ineffective and potentially destructive. This paper examines various such schemes in view of GPU-based attacks and identifies characteristics that allow defense mechanisms to withstand attacks. In particular, we demonstrate that, hash-reversal schemes which adapt solely on server load are ineffective under attack by GPU utilizing adversaries; whereas, hash-reversal schemes which adapt based on client behavior are effective even under GPU based attacks.
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