Re: Bah, my idea by the people who I said needed it

[bill parducci]

actually, what immediately comes to mind for me is non-repudiation of 
e-mail messages (finally! ;o)

b

Mark Swanson wrote:
On December 11, 2003 6:34 pm, bill parducci wrote:

if it takes off, it should make CPU salesmen around the world happy! :o)


I was curious so I fired up the ol' `openssl speed` test on my Athlon 2400 and 
found:
                  sign    verify    sign/s verify/s
rsa  512 bits   0.0015s   0.0002s    661.5   6628.4

I think even 512 bits would provide a lot of value. What immediately comes to 
mind is a black hole service that would block based on digital certificates. 
Think of the ramifications of an Internet that only used authenticated SMTP 
servers, and provided feedback about spammers relatively quickly.

I would be on this like a fat kid on smarties if I could afford the bandwidth 
of 10,000 machines (controlled by spammers/virus writers) constantly DoS 
attacking my global services cluster.

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