[45945] in Cypherpunks
Re: Only accepting e-mail from known parties
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A. Rosenberg)
Tue Dec 26 09:27:55 1995
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 1995 08:37:30 -0500
To: tallpaul@pipeline.com (tallpaul)
From: "Robert A. Rosenberg" <hal9001@panix.com>
Cc: Adam Shostack <adam@lighthouse.homeport.org>, cypherpunks@toad.com
At 14:33 12/25/95, tallpaul wrote:
>Thoughts? (I see one problem with this but it should be able to be worked
>out once the basic method is agreed to).
I assume that the "Problem" is that by only giving each corespondent ONE
E-Stamp, you are single streaming your connections with them (ie: Are
talking Half-Duplex). Not only are they restricted to one message
"in-flight" but they can not start another message until they have done a
capture run to acquire your ACK and get the new key.