Recently someone proposed a system which combined ecash and hashcash
for email postage. Here is some analysis.
There are already proposals and even some working code for hashcash email
postage. See http://www.camram.org/. This is intended as an anti-spam
measure. The idea is that to send
For some updated news about NGSCB, aka Palladium, go to the Microsoft
NGSCB newsgroup page at
http://communities.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.asp?icp=ngscbslcid=us.
This might be a good forum for cypherpunks to ask questions about
Palladium.
There was a particularly informative posting by
, f_out);
}
}
}
/* Setup and handshake functions */
/* Do an anonymous DH exchange */
static int
dodh (int prio, FILE *f_in, FILE *f_out)
{
my_x = BN_new();
my_y = BN_new();
shared = BN_new();
p = BN_new();
q = BN_new();
g
, and other characteristics of the
payload.
And this does not require wide-area synchronization.
If incoming packets are delayed or lost, outgoing
packets may have to include nulls (i.e. cover traffic).
Suppose you are engaged in a video conference with another party via an
anonymous real-time
* have communicated.
This is not true, and in fact this result is one of the most important
to have been obtained in the anonymity community in the past decade. The
impossibility of practical, strong, real-time anonymous communication has
undoubtedly played a role in the lack of deployment
A number of SSL-enabled applications use precomputed public DH parameters (p and g)
generated for use in the SKIP protocol. The original page appears to be off the air;
here's an archived version:
http://web.archive.org/web/20011212141438/http://www.skip-vpn.org/spec/numbers.html#params
James A. Donald writes:
Suppose the e-gold, to prevent this sea of spam trying to get
people to login to fake e-gold sites, wanted people to use
public keys instead of shared secrets, making your secret key
the instrument that controls the account instead of your shared
password.
They
