On 19 May 2002 18:15:45 -0400 John R Levine <John> wrote: >> That is to say, it costs you nothing to get an e-stamp - but you >> still have to get one. There's no money to move around, but there is >> a transaction you have to make.
> You may be about to invent hashcash, which has its own problems. > You have to ration the stamps somehow, otherwise they're meaningless. > If they're rationed, there's an incentive to steal them, leading to > the same problems you have with real money. Start out by extending TLS such that message contents are encluded in the negotiation and the resultant signature is embedded in a header. In this manner extend TLS chain-of-transcription to both message bodies and the Received: path. Then, just to wrap, start rejecting all mail which doesn't have end-to-end TLS containment. Its more than a little resource expensive, but the values are there. -- J C Lawrence ---------(*) Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. [EMAIL PROTECTED] He lived as a devil, eh? http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.
