While the discussions may have been rather interesting at times, what
next steps should be taken within the context of this group.
How about figuring out a robust hashcash and signature mechanism, and
considering how well it would work, including the possibility of third
parties selling hashcash as a form of decentralised e-postage. There's
already some work in this area, which can be built upon, but a summary
of this would be useful.
Oh, and I think I've figured out a way to do signatures without
involving the message content (which is liable to change in transit
under various circumstances). It ties in neatly with hashcash. :)
Simply put, since the hashcash must be unique per message, do the
signature on the hashcash rather than the message itself. For messages
which don't require high-value hashcash due to whitelisting, generate a
trivial (say 8-bit) unique hashcash and use that for the signature.
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