Skip to content

InteractivePlus/pow_challenge

Repository files navigation

Dart POW Challenge Package

Finally a POW challenge(captcha) package for dart.


Note: Ideas borrowed at xenohunter/lapti-pow-captcha

POW Challenge Idea

If there are some methods in the API which take much time to serve, you may want to guard them against DDoS attacks. A way of doing that is described below.

The server keeps some secret data SECRET which is unknown to anyone. The server can also generate additional salt to go into generating a challenge, say for example, session_id of the visit. Then the server returns a token token which is Hash(SECRET + additional salt), and also a number complexity which sets the complexity level.

The client then takes token and tries to find such an int value nonce that the first n bit of Hash(token + nonce.toString()) are 0 bits, where n equals complexity.

When the needed nonce is found the client sends a request to the server and attach nounce.

The server then calculates the Hash(token + nounce) and checks if the result matches the given complexity.

About

A POW(Proof-of-work) Challenge(Captcha) package for dart

Resources

License

Stars

Watchers

Forks

Releases

No releases published

Packages

No packages published

Languages