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.
claw@kanga.nu He lived as a devil, eh?
http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.
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