Proof of work finding engine.

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JoelKatz
2012-11-12 15:55:58 -08:00
parent a6e709e5ff
commit 35905edd77
2 changed files with 73 additions and 18 deletions

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@@ -2,9 +2,14 @@
#include <string>
#include <boost/test/unit_test.hpp>
#include <openssl/rand.h>
#include "Serializer.h"
#include "Log.h"
SETUP_LOG();
const uint256 ProofOfWork::sMinTarget("00000000FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF");
const int ProofOfWork::sMaxIterations(1 << 23);
@@ -16,26 +21,38 @@ bool ProofOfWork::isValid() const
uint64 ProofOfWork::getDifficulty(const uint256& target, int iterations)
{ // calculate the approximate number of hashes required to solve this proof of work
if ((iterations > sMaxIterations) || (target < sMinTarget));
if ((iterations > sMaxIterations) || (target < sMinTarget))
{
cLog(lsINFO) << "Iterations:" << iterations;
cLog(lsINFO) << "MaxIterat: " << sMaxIterations;
cLog(lsINFO) << "Target: " << target;
cLog(lsINFO) << "MinTarget: " << sMinTarget;
throw std::runtime_error("invalid proof of work target/iteration");
}
// more iterations means more hashes per iteration but also a larger final hash
uint64 difficulty = iterations * (iterations / 4 + 1);
// Multiply the number of hashes needed by 16 for each leading zero in the hex difficulty
const unsigned char *ptr = target.begin();
// Multiply the number of hashes needed by 256 for each leading zero byte in the hex difficulty
const unsigned char *ptr = target.end() - 1;
while (*ptr == 0)
{
difficulty *= 16;
ptr++;
cLog(lsINFO) << "getDif: " << (int) *ptr;
difficulty *= 256;
--ptr;
}
// If the first digit after a zero isn't an F, multiply
difficulty *= (16 - *ptr);
difficulty *= (256 - *ptr);
return difficulty;
}
static uint256 getSHA512Half(const std::vector<uint256>& vec)
{
return Serializer::getSHA512Half(vec.front().begin(), vec.size() * (256 / 8));
}
uint256 ProofOfWork::solve(int maxIterations) const
{
if (!isValid())
@@ -44,23 +61,49 @@ uint256 ProofOfWork::solve(int maxIterations) const
uint256 nonce;
RAND_bytes(nonce.begin(), nonce.size());
Serializer s1, s2;
std::vector<unsigned char> buf;
buf.reserve((256 / 8) * mIterations);
std::vector<uint256> buf2;
buf2.resize(mIterations);
while (maxIterations > 8)
std::vector<uint256> buf1;
buf1.resize(3);
buf1[0] = mChallenge;
while (maxIterations > 0)
{
s1.add256(mChallenge);
s1.add256(nonce);
// uint256 base = s1.getSHA512Half();
for (int i = 0; i < mIterations; ++i)
buf1[1] = nonce;
buf1[2] = uint256();
for (int i = (mIterations - 1); i >= 0; --i)
{
// WRITEME
if (buf1.size() != 3)
Log(lsINFO) << "buf1.size=" << buf1.size();
buf1[2] = getSHA512Half(buf1);
buf2[i] = buf1[2];
}
if (buf2.size() != mIterations)
Log(lsINFO) << "buf2.size=" << buf2.size();
s1.erase();
nonce++;
uint256 hash = getSHA512Half(buf2);
if (hash <= mTarget)
return nonce;
++nonce;
--maxIterations;
}
return uint256();
}
BOOST_AUTO_TEST_SUITE(ProofOfWork_suite)
BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE( ProofOfWork_test )
{
ProofOfWork pow("test", 32, uint256(),
uint256("00FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF"));
cLog(lsINFO) << "Estimated difficulty: " << pow.getDifficulty();
uint256 solution = pow.solve(16777216);
if (solution.isZero())
BOOST_FAIL("Unable to solve proof of work");
}
BOOST_AUTO_TEST_SUITE_END()
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@@ -10,6 +10,15 @@
#include "uint256.h"
enum POWResult
{
powOK = 0,
powREUSED = 1,
powBADNONCE = 2,
powBADTOKEN = 3,
powEXPIRED = 4,
};
class ProofOfWork
{
protected:
@@ -48,6 +57,7 @@ protected:
int mIterations;
uint256 mTarget;
time_t mLastDifficultyChange;
int mValidTime;
powMap_t mSolvedChallenges;
boost::mutex mLock;
@@ -64,3 +74,5 @@ public:
};
#endif
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