[5124] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: depleting the random number generator
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Sat Jul 17 19:45:49 1999
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 23:09:56 +0100
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
To: John Denker <jsd@research.att.com>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
John Denker wrote:
> I certainly hope these issues have been analyzed and brought under control.
> Can somebody lend me a clue as to the status, and/or where I might read more
> about it? If this list is not the optimal forum for discussing such
> things, could somebody point me to a better one?
This seems like a really obvious application of hashcash. The really
nice thing is that its an environment where it can be universally
applied, too.
Cheers,
Ben.
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