(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. It's about economics. I'd really like to see people NOT talk about the security of cryptography, but instead of about the cost of it. If the cost of breaking a system exceeds the value of an identifiable message, nobody will bother breaking it. If the cost of using a system exceeds the value of the system, nobody will bother using it. So, in this context, Ben & Richards paper is not so much that "hashcash won't work" but instead "the value of using hashcash is exceeded by the cost of using it." -- --My blog is at angry-economist.russnelson.com | Violence never solves Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | problems, it just changes 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 212-202-2318 voice | them into more subtle Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | FWD# 404529 via VOIP | problems. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]