david nicol wrote:
On Fri, 2003-12-26 at 22:21, Thomas Harold wrote:
Seems a shame to waste all those CPU cycles though... pity they couldn't
be turned into encryption cycles of the actual message content.
They can and they are. Those bold individuals who only accept
incoming mail with valid GPG signatures -- do they receive much spam?
Although you only need to sign your spam once before you distribute
it like so many blowing cottonwood seeds blowing in the midsummer winds
so never mind
That is true if you're talking about signed e-mail... I was thinking
more along the lines of using those CPU cycles to encrypt each message
using the recipient's public key.
(Not that this has much to do with the CPU-payment models, just a sigh
of pity that the CPU cycles are essentially being wasted... which wastes
energy.)
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