The introduction of reputation services [...]
We already have blacklists,
Blacklists are, at most, one-bit reputiation services (which nobody
would pay "two-bits" for).
At work (an ISP) we're paying substantially more than two bits for
access to a blacklist. We find it worth it.
Epostage is dead-on-arrival for a number of reasons, including "a
hundred million zombies".
A hundred million zombies aren't enough to guess strong password
encryption
The point is not the zombies attacking the crypto. The point is
zombies (ab)using their machines' legitimate owners' epostage.
Making ePostage work is clearly possible in an environment of [...]
Quite possibly. Are such environments common enough to matter?
I don't think anyone's claiming epostage doesn't have even a niche
place. But so far it doesn't seem to have more than that. People keep
claiming it does, but the proof (ie, the example) is, so far, lacking.
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