Comment by throwawayffffas
3 days ago
Unless they require a new token for each new request or every x minutes or something it won't matter.
And as the poster mentioned if you are running an AI model you probably have GPUs to spare. Unlike the dev working from a 5 year old Thinkpad or their phone.
Apparently bcrypt has design that makes it difficult to accelerate effectively on a GPU.
Indeed a new token should be requested per request; the tokens could also be pre-calculated, so that while the user is browsing a page, the browser could calculate tickets suitable to access the next likely browsing targets (e.g. the "next" button).
The biggest downside I see is that mobile devices would likely suffer. Possible the difficulty of the challange is/should be varied by other metrics, such as the number of requests arriving per time unit from a C-class network etc.