Re: will spammers early adopt hashcash? (Re: Spam Spotlight on Reputation)

2004-09-14 Thread Russell Nelson
(everybody is on the mailing list; why all the CC's?) Adam Back writes: Will it be enough -- we don't know yet, but if widely deployed it would make spammers adapt. We just don't yet know how they will adapt. Cryptography is not about math; it's not about secrets; it's not about security.

Re: Spam Spotlight on Reputation

2004-09-07 Thread bear
On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Hadmut Danisch wrote: The last 17 month of work in ASRG (Anti Spam Research Group, IRTF) and MARID (Mail authorization records in DNS, IETF) are an excellent example of how to not design security protocols. This was all about marketing, commercial interests, patent

Spam Spotlight on Reputation

2004-09-06 Thread R. A. Hettinga
http://www.eweek.com/print_article/0,1761,a=134748,00.asp EWeek Spam Spotlight on Reputation Spam Spotlight on Reputation September 6, 2004 By Dennis Callaghan As enterprises continue to register Sender Protection Framework records, hoping to thwart spam and phishing attacks, spammers