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RE: [Asrg] Thoughts so far

2003-03-19 09:13:25
At 08:46 AM 3/19/2003 +0000, Matt Sergeant wrote:
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Steve Schear wrote:

> This aspect of PoW stamps was keenly discussed on the Camram list. Yes, its
> true that the balance might require that PDA, cellphone and older CPUs
> would need to spend a fair amount of time per stamp generation in order to
> maintain an effective barrier to spammers, but these less fortunate folk
> could also opt to use stamp generator proxies at either their ISP or 3rd
> parties (maybe P2P meshes). And over time the computation burden for stamp
> minting would need to be slowly increased to stay ahead of increasing
> general and specail purpose HW spammers might employ.

What would be the immediate benefit for an ISP (or a P2P mesh) letting me
use their CPU to generate stamps?

A value add service perhaps.

I known an ISP wouldn't want to allow
that, so maybe a P2P mesh - and what's to stop a spammer from using the
P2P mesh? Certs?

Nothing except these would probably be commercial meshes with some price for computation being assessed.

steve

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