>>You know those crackpot ideas that keep showing up in snake oil crypto? >>Well, e-postage is snake oil antispam. > >While I think this statement may be true for POW coinage, because for a bot >net it "grows on trees", for money that traces back to the international >monetary exchange system, it may not be completely true.
It's close enough to completely true. Stealing postage via bots is only one of multiple fatal problems. I wrote this white paper in 2004; some of the details could stand a little update but the conclusions are as clear as ever: http://www.taugh.com/epostage.pdf R's, John --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [email protected]
