Re: overcoming ecash deployment problems (Re: all about transferable off-line ecash)

2002-04-11 Thread A. Melon
Tim May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday, April 11, 2002, at 06:59 AM, Mike Rosing wrote: > > But the reason we have AC today is because Tesla requested no > > royalties on his motor/generator. Something for Brands to think > > about. > > No, we have AC because AC works better than DC i

Re: all about transferable off-line ecash (Re: Brands off-line tech)

2002-04-09 Thread A. Melon
Peter Trei writes: > Speaking for myself and a few friends and relations, we'd > be perfectly happy to use them, if they were available. A good place to get Sacagawea dollars is from the stamp machine at your local post office. Put in a $20 bill and buy as small an amount of stamps as you can, a

Choate's header stripping address

2002-03-29 Thread A. Melon
I have added Choate's header stripping cpunks address (I won't lie and call it an anonymizer) to my killfile, as 95% of all traffic through it has been spam previously. Apparently, Jimbo left a mailto: link on a website somewhere, and it got harvested. Now, Mr. CACL is evading my killfiles by

RE: 1024-bit RSA keys in danger of compromise

2002-03-28 Thread A. Melon
> Here's a real question: if you could build a special purpose machine > to do 1024 bit RSA keys (that is, factor a 1024 bit number), how much > would that help with discrete logs in a safe prime field? Solving discrete logs via NFS is structurally similar to factoring. You start off with a facto