Re: [Bitcoin-development] [bitcoin-list] BitMail - p2p Email 0.1. beta

2013-07-31 Thread Mike Hearn
Sorry, I just noticed that this thread was CCd to the announce list not the development list (why is it open access?) It's offtopic anyway. Let's continue this discussion in private if anyone wants to. On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Mike Hearn wrote: > > The reason why TPM functionality was

Re: [Bitcoin-development] [bitcoin-list] BitMail - p2p Email 0.1. beta

2013-07-31 Thread Mike Hearn
"Support" for a TPM is a rather tricky thing. By itself the TPM is independent of any CPU. However, it's also not very useful (though for Pond's use case, it works). The TPM gets much more useful when it's integrated with features on the motherboard, BIOS, CPU, northbridge, IOMMU etc. Then you ha

Re: [Bitcoin-development] [bitcoin-list] BitMail - p2p Email 0.1. beta

2013-07-30 Thread Mike Hearn
TPMs have come as standard with nearly all computers (except Macs, doh) for a long time. They certainly don't cost $100. More like a few dollars at most. That's why they're so slow. On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 10:43 PM, grarpamp wrote: > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 8:12 AM, Mike Hearn wrote: > > The T