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@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ mkproof is a small C program for generating proofs of work.
Installation
If mkproof is available as a package on your system, prefer to install that
rather than build it yourself.
mkproof depends only on a POSIX-like environment and a C99 compiler.
$ ./configure
@ -53,3 +56,8 @@ which should be transmitted to the challenger.
To verify the proof, simply run the proof algorithm with the original challenge
parameters and the challengee's provided seed and verify that the resulting
hexadecimal string is prefixed with the appropriate number of zeroes.
Notes
The defaults are tuned to take about ten minutes on one core of a modern
consumer CPU.