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Re: idea for spam protection

2005-03-12 09:25:42
On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 08:55, Johan Henriksson wrote:
my idea is to use encryption (for now - better alternatives might exist);
if it takes up to 1 minute to encrypt a mail, the cost per mail is
increased greatly.

this is not new.  variants have been proposed under a number of names for 
years (see "hashcash").

IMHO, this one's a bad idea on a number of fronts;
        - bad for the environment due to excessive energy consumption.
        - bad for battery life on portable/mobile devices.
        - discriminates against older/low powered senders.
        - doesn't actually help stop spam because the black hats today use
          use viruses, etc., to recruit insecure systems into their zombie
          armies of open proxies.  
          these insecure systems are probably idle most of the time and 
          could easily be reprogrammed to burn cycles on proof-of-work   
          functions.

where's that Final Ultimate Solution to the Spam Problem scorecard?


                                                - Bill


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