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As much as I hate promotion emails, I do hope they make sure that companies can still send mass "dark mails" securely, rather than sending the one by one...
by alexchamberlain 13y ago
As much as I hate promotion emails, I do hope they make sure that companies can still send mass "dark mails" securely, rather than sending the one by one...
- angersock 13y agoWait wait wait! Requiring very strong encryption may help make spam email computationally infeasible. That alone might be worth it!
- sliverstorm 13y agoI thought even extremely strong encryption was computationally quite light- it's cracking the crypto that takes computing muscle.
- conductor 13y agoMaybe they are going to require "Proof of work" - https://bitcoin.it/wiki/Proof_of_work https://bitcoin.it/wiki/Proof_of_work
- toomuchtodo 13y agoIf only there was some way to make spammers do the work of Bitcoin miners....
- wyager 13y agoSee Bitmessage. It has two options. Either senders can spend a significant amount of time (~30 seconds) doing a proof-of-work calculation and send a message to a single person, or they can spend the same amount of time and send a message to an arbitrary number of people, but only if those people are subscribed to the person sending the message.
- cdman 13y agoNope, doesn't work. Most of spam today is sent trough compromised computers (botnets), so requiring more CPU work doesn't do anything (other than increase the world power consumption a tiny bit).