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Re: "Approximate" hashes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marcel Popescu)
Wed Sep 1 15:50:47 2004
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From: "Marcel Popescu" <Marcel_Popescu@microbilt.com>
To: "\"Hal Finney\"" <hal@finney.org>
Cc: <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 21:52:40 +0300
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From: ""Hal Finney"" <hal@finney.org>
> As you are probably aware, existing hashcash implementations do not base
> the stamp on the message content. Instead they only lock the stamp to
> the receiver's email address. Then the receiver keeps a list of the
> hashcash stamps he has seen recently, to prevent reuse. I'm not sure
> what you hope to gain by locking the stamp to the message content.
Me dumb, sorry. I was actually thinking of some other thing I wanted to do
about spam (which involved the whole content), and haven't re-read the
hashcash site in about a week.
You are perfectly right, of course. Windows spam victims, here I come! <g>
Thanks,
Marcel
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