[91779] in Cypherpunks
Re: hashcash spam prevention & firewalls
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Uhh...this is Joe [Randall Farmer])
Sat Dec 13 15:34:41 1997
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 14:07:33 -0600 (CST)
From: "Uhh...this is Joe [Randall Farmer]" <rfarmer@HiWAAY.net>
To: "Robert A. Costner" <pooh@efga.org>
cc: Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19971212234515.006a79a0@mail.atl.bellsouth.net>
Reply-To: "Uhh...this is Joe [Randall Farmer]" <rfarmer@HiWAAY.net>
...
> So, we would need about 44 hours of CPU time each day.
Well, have a system of certified remailers trusted to force their users to burn
up time at the sending end, so the ultimate recipient accepts their messages
w/o postage. One certified remailer accepts messages from others without any
postage, so only the original sender has to use up CPU time.
> -- Robert Costner Phone: (770) 512-8746
> Electronic Frontiers Georgia mailto:pooh@efga.org
> http://www.efga.org/ run PGP 5.0 for my public key
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