On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 11:21:40PM -0700, Dev Random wrote: > What about a Whitelist plus HashCash for people not on the list? > The recipient could specify how much HashCash they want. > > Also, I've been thinking of an extension to HashCash which I call > TuringCash. It has the advantage that it would be much harder to > accelerate with specialized hardware. > > TuringCash works like this. Specify a little virtual machine with a very > clean instruction set. The email recipient publishes the algorithm to > run and the expected running time. The output of the algorithm must > be submitted (just like the hash collision in the case of HashCash). > The virtual machine sandbox would be provably secure (not hard with a > clean instruction set).
Interesting. Can you give an example of such an algorithm? -- # tavin cole # # "The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, # a continual flight from wonder." # - Albert Einstein _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl >From - Sun May 6 15:04:28 2001 Return-Path: <devl-admin at freenetproject.org> Received: from hawk.freenetproject.org (postfix@[4.18.42.11]) by funky.danky.com (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA14780 for <danello at danky.com>; Thu, 3 May 2001 02:17:37 -0400 Received: from hawk.freenetproject.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hawk.freenetproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ADCE5800F; Wed, 2 May 2001 23:58:04 -0700 (PDT) Delivered-To: devl at freenetproject.org Received: from moe.cc.utexas.edu (moe.cc.utexas.edu [128.83.42.2]) by hawk.freenetproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D505F57FFD for <devl at freenetproject.org>; Wed, 2 May 2001 23:57:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (blanu at localhost) by moe.cc.utexas.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/cc-uts-client-1.11) with ESMTP id BAA27735 for <devl at freenetproject.org>; Thu, 3 May 2001 01:52:52 -0500 (CDT)
