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Re: [Asrg] Too Big to Block?

John Leslie <john@jlc.net> Thu, 09 July 2009 17:36 UTC

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der Mouse <mouse@Rodents-Montreal.ORG> wrote:
> 
>>> Epostage is dead-on-arrival for a number of reasons, including "a
>>> hundred million zombies".
> 
>> A hundred million zombies aren't enough to guess strong password
>> encryption
> 
> The point is not the zombies attacking the crypto.  The point is
> zombies (ab)using their machines' legitimate owners' epostage.

   This is a problem why?

>> Making ePostage work is clearly possible in an environment of [...]
> 
> Quite possibly.  Are such environments common enough to matter?

   I can imagine them... Why couldn't they be common?

> I don't think anyone's claiming epostage doesn't have even a niche
> place.  But so far it doesn't seem to have more than that.  People keep
> claiming it does, but the proof (ie, the example) is, so far, lacking.

   Hmm... sounds like a good "research" project...

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John Leslie <john@jlc.net>

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