This paper is quite interesting and proposes another method of
metering content [1]:
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/naor98secure.html
It's proposed in the context of web site traffic metering to determine
site traffic rates (for advertising payment or other applications).
It relies on a tru
I proposed a construct which could be used for this application:
called "amortizable hashcash".
http://www.cypherspace.org/hashcash/amortizable.pdf
The application I had in mind was also file sharing. (This was
sometime in Mar 2000). I described this problem as the "disitrbuted
documen
