Re: 3. Proof-of-work analysis

2004-06-03 Thread Ben Laurie
Adam Back wrote: Here's a forward of parts of an email I sent to Richard with comments on his and Ben's paper (sent me a pre-print off-list a couple of weeks ago): One obvious comment is that the calculations do not take account of the CAMRAM approach of charging for introductions only. You mentio

Re: 3. Proof-of-work analysis

2004-06-03 Thread Morlock Elloi
> It seems we now have hard figures to support the notion that > proof-of-work cannot be a complete solution in itself. We will be making > that clearer in a revision of the paper (and fixing some errors). It seems that efforts to increase cost of e-mail by some heavy cycle burning fail on the a

Re: Identifying Air Marshals is Too Easy

2004-06-03 Thread Sarad AV
You can pick a few of them by looking in the eye. They are usually very sharp people. Sarath. > "Secret Service people are notoriously known for > being snappy dressers," > said Capt. Steve Luckey, security chairman for the > Air Line Pilots > Association. __

Palm Hack?

2004-06-03 Thread Tyler Durden
Anybody know of apps that allow someone to hack somebody else's Palm? Specifically, say you are beaming or receiving a beam from someone else's Palm, but you'd like to know much more than what they had planned on beaming you. So you actually beam them an app that takes their phonebook and calend

Iranian Code Crack

2004-06-03 Thread John Young
Information, speculation or leads on the Iranian cryptosystem allegedly cracked or black-jobbed by the US are welcomed for publication on Cryptome.org. Reported today in the NY Times and elsewhere. The Times claims it was asked by the USG to withhold information about the crack (allegedly revea