Re: depleting the random number generator

[Bill Stewart]

At 09:28 PM 7/18/99 +0100, Ben Laurie wrote:
>The obvious way to solve the underlying problem, as I've already said,
>is to use hashcash.
>Cheers,
>
>Ben.

Hashcash is interesting in general environments - forcing the
initiator of a transaction to burn some CPU keeps them from 
swamping you with attempts.  But the various ipsec key exchange protocols
aren't going to provide a handle for including it.

(Too bad - you could also toss the hashcash into the entropy pool :-)
                                Thanks! 
                                        Bill
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