Comment by ChainOfFools
6 years ago
I seem to recall an unusual proof of work scheme (cuckoo iirc) which depended on some similar exploit of off-label DRAM timing behavior, but just as a means of assuring a standard measuring unit rather than to perform compute ops.
As the author of the Cuckoo Cycle PoW https://github.com/tromp/cuckoo I don't recall any such dependence. I don't see how the operations described in the paper would benefit a Cuckoo Cycle solver, which in essense looks like https://github.com/tromp/cuckoo/blob/master/doc/simplesolve