will spammers early adopt hashcash? (Re: Spam Spotlight on Reputation)

[Adam Shostack]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 01:18:32PM +0100, Ben Laurie wrote:
| Adam Shostack wrote:
| 
| >On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 04:13:13PM -0400, Adam Back wrote:
| >
| >| Well we'll see.  If they have lots of CPU from zombies and can get and
| >| maintain more with limited effort maybe even they can, and CAMRAM's
| >| higher cost stamp on introductions only will prevail as the preferred
| >| method.
| >
| >Adam,
| >
| >	You've thought about this more than me.  What do you see as
| >equilibrium postal rates if the spammers have 10k, 100k, or a million
| >nodes to send?
| >
| >        Will spammers run under nice?  Use your graphics card as a
| >co-processor?  Is the rate of new vulns high enough to keep their CPU
| >pools filled?
| 
| We have some figures for that kind of stuff in 
| http://www.apache-ssl.org/proofwork.pdf.

Thanks!  That was exactly what I was hoping wouldn't get said, because
I no longer believe that hashcash is substantially useful.

Adam S

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