On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 11:21:40PM -0700, Dev Random wrote:
> What about a Whitelist plus HashCash for people not on the list?
> The recipient could specify how much HashCash they want.
>
> Also, I've been thinking of an extension to HashCash which I call
> TuringCash. It has the advantage that it would be much harder to
> accelerate with specialized hardware.
>
> TuringCash works like this. Specify a little virtual machine with a very
> clean instruction set. The email recipient publishes the algorithm to
> run and the expected running time. The output of the algorithm must
> be submitted (just like the hash collision in the case of HashCash).
> The virtual machine sandbox would be provably secure (not hard with a
> clean instruction set).
Interesting. Can you give an example of such an algorithm?
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# tavin cole
#
# "The process of scientific discovery is, in effect,
# a continual flight from wonder."
# - Albert Einstein
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