On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 01:18:32PM +0100, Ben Laurie wrote: | Adam Shostack wrote: | | >On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 04:13:13PM -0400, Adam Back wrote: | > | >| Well we'll see. If they have lots of CPU from zombies and can get and | >| maintain more with limited effort maybe even they can, and CAMRAM's | >| higher cost stamp on introductions only will prevail as the preferred | >| method. | > | >Adam, | > | > You've thought about this more than me. What do you see as | >equilibrium postal rates if the spammers have 10k, 100k, or a million | >nodes to send? | > | > Will spammers run under nice? Use your graphics card as a | >co-processor? Is the rate of new vulns high enough to keep their CPU | >pools filled? | | We have some figures for that kind of stuff in | http://www.apache-ssl.org/proofwork.pdf.
Thanks! That was exactly what I was hoping wouldn't get said, because I no longer believe that hashcash is substantially useful. Adam S --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
