--- res: bibo_abstract: - Proofs of work (PoW) have been suggested by Dwork and Naor (Crypto’92) as protection to a shared resource. The basic idea is to ask the service requestor to dedicate some non-trivial amount of computational work to every request. The original applications included prevention of spam and protection against denial of service attacks. More recently, PoWs have been used to prevent double spending in the Bitcoin digital currency system. In this work, we put forward an alternative concept for PoWs - so-called proofs of space (PoS), where a service requestor must dedicate a significant amount of disk space as opposed to computation. We construct secure PoS schemes in the random oracle model (with one additional mild assumption required for the proof to go through), using graphs with high “pebbling complexity” and Merkle hash-trees. We discuss some applications, including follow-up work where a decentralized digital currency scheme called Spacecoin is constructed that uses PoS (instead of wasteful PoW like in Bitcoin) to prevent double spending. The main technical contribution of this work is the construction of (directed, loop-free) graphs on N vertices with in-degree O(log logN) such that even if one places Θ(N) pebbles on the nodes of the graph, there’s a constant fraction of nodes that needs Θ(N) steps to be pebbled (where in every step one can put a pebble on a node if all its parents have a pebble).@eng bibo_authorlist: - foaf_Person: foaf_givenName: Stefan foaf_name: Dziembowski, Stefan foaf_surname: Dziembowski - foaf_Person: foaf_givenName: Sebastian foaf_name: Faust, Sebastian foaf_surname: Faust - foaf_Person: foaf_givenName: Vladimir foaf_name: Kolmogorov, Vladimir foaf_surname: Kolmogorov foaf_workInfoHomepage: http://www.librecat.org/personId=3D50B0BA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 - foaf_Person: foaf_givenName: Krzysztof Z foaf_name: Pietrzak, Krzysztof Z foaf_surname: Pietrzak foaf_workInfoHomepage: http://www.librecat.org/personId=3E04A7AA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 orcid: 0000-0002-9139-1654 bibo_doi: 10.1007/978-3-662-48000-7_29 bibo_volume: 9216 dct_date: 2015^xs_gYear dct_isPartOf: - http://id.crossref.org/issn/0302-9743 - http://id.crossref.org/issn/9783662479995 dct_language: eng dct_publisher: Springer@ dct_title: Proofs of space@ ...