[47285] in Cypherpunks
Re: Digital postage and remailer abuse (was Re: Novel use of Usenet and remailers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucky Green)
Tue Jan 16 02:56:22 1996
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 23:50:22 -0800
To: abostick@netcom.com (Alan Bostick)
From: shamrock@netcom.com (Lucky Green)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
At 8:47 1/13/96, Alan Bostick wrote:
>Maybe I'm misunderstanding how using digital postage with remailers would
>work. I was assuming that the postage stamp would be included *inside*
>the encrypted envelope, that what the remailer would do on receipt of
>mail would be: (a) decrypt the envelope; (b) validate the postage stamp;
>and (if the stamp is valid) (c) forward the message according to the
>now-decryped instructions.
>
>Using this model, if the perpetrator doesn't include a postage stamp,
>then the message is ignored. If the perp includes a stamp, the first
>horny net geek's message is relayed but subsequent ones get bounced for
>invalid postage.
You are right.
-- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com>
PGP encrypted mail preferred.
