Was this posted here already? twitter.com/aravind2112/status/1470864945562767369

Does anyone know if fit has an implementation in code yet?

I remember seeing this in the form of PayMo for a while. It's not really considerable as a UX IMO, despite being fascinating to watch

On failure, it's effectively CPU mining signatures locked behind a VDF with the comment the opponent won't be more powerful by a scale of X. Turns out it's not hard to be faster by a scale of X

Which means very long lock times that force CPU actions to be secure

I'd have to pull up PayMo to say why this is distinct, even. I'm also curious what their params are as they claim to have an impl. Also a coupleof inaccuracies, yet nothing outrageous

Got it. It's a generalization from PayMo. Good to see

Reads like an incomplete set of scripts

*The scientific community would probably be offended at calling it a "generalization from PayMo". For anyone who understood what PayMo presented, this is very similar, it's just better. I'm not trying to call out its official provenance. At first glance, it seems like solid work, but I'm not convinced it's practically usable. The inaccuracies are on the abilities and flexibility of prior work, which are mildly incorrect.

How peer reviewed is this paper? It will "appear at IEEE SP'22" What does that mean?

I can't peer review it as a matter of competence. ieee-security.org/TC/SP2022 CMU is a sponsor. I don't see any comments on peer review and it cites a lot of work which also would needs its own peer review.

*So when I say it looks fine to me, that's not an endorsement in any regard. That's me saying this isn't someone claiming atomic swaps and forgetting one party may be malicious and not handling that at all.

Considering the implementation is partial, it can't be fully tested though, so that would be a valuable step. It should be a much simpler protocol, thankfully.

My question is broadly how does peer review work in CompSci? I think a lot of papers finish their life as conference presentations, so what does that entail?

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But definitely the right channel to get such an answer. Sorry for interjecting :p