I got to disagree with the idea that Microsoft never produce anything really good. Excel might be an exception as its interface at least used to be considered very good. 2 years ago at least one HCI researcher at kth.se admired Excel wrt her field. I am using OO Spreadsheet nowadays as it is good enough and comes with Ubuntu, but it is still not as good as Excel was 10 years ago. But then, I guess, 10 years ago there existed more of a Microsoft cult.
The mandatory execution time should only need to increase polynomially. It is finding a collision that would hopefully take exponential time. Doubling the number of bits in the hash used in the hash might make it take four times as long to compute the hash and exponentially (say 2^50) times longer to crack.
Well, deciding to pay everyone you mail once up to some amount is one way of reducing the cost of decicion.
If email addresses get longer because of including information about ABM amount as you suggest, then that is another cost. The one page description talks of a challenge and then longer addresses are not needed.
When the system is new there will definitely be people who get the annoying challenge as most will not have decided to use it yet.
This is another attempt to sell micropayments. It has the same problem as the previous: the cost of deciding if you want to pay. Also, if you mail someone and then get a reply that says "You have mailed X who has decided he requires you to post a bond of 2 cents for him to pay attention to your mail. Please use one of the bond posting services listed at URL." you are likely to decide it is not worth bothering.
This is another attempt to sell micropayments. It has the same problem as the previous: the cost of deciding if you want to pay. Also, if you mail someone and then get a reply that says "You have mailed who has decided he requires you to post a bond of 2 cents for him to pay attention to your mail. Please use one of the bond posting services listed at." you are likely to decide it is not worth bothering.
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I got to disagree with the idea that Microsoft never produce anything really good.
Excel might be an exception as its interface at least used to be considered very good.
2 years ago at least one HCI researcher at kth.se admired Excel wrt her field.
I am using OO Spreadsheet nowadays as it is good enough and comes with Ubuntu, but it is still not as good as Excel was 10 years ago.
But then, I guess, 10 years ago there existed more of a Microsoft cult.
One possibility is that it might only run versions signed by Nintendo.
This is a loophole that GNU GPL version 3 is meant to prevent.
The mandatory execution time should only need to increase polynomially. It is finding a collision that would hopefully take exponential time.
Doubling the number of bits in the hash used in the hash might make it take four times as long to compute the hash and exponentially (say 2^50) times longer to crack.
Well, deciding to pay everyone you mail once up to some amount is one way of reducing the cost of decicion.
If email addresses get longer because of including information about ABM amount as you suggest, then that is another cost. The one page description talks of a challenge and then longer addresses are not needed.
When the system is new there will definitely be people who get the annoying challenge as most will not have decided to use it yet.
Part of the message got mangled, here goes again:
This is another attempt to sell micropayments.
It has the same problem as the previous: the cost of deciding if you want to pay.
Also, if you mail someone and then get a reply that says "You have mailed X who has decided he requires you to post a bond of 2 cents for him to pay attention to your mail. Please use one of the bond posting services listed at URL." you are likely to decide it is not worth bothering.
This is another attempt to sell micropayments. ." you are likely to decide it is not worth bothering.
It has the same problem as the previous: the cost of deciding if you want to pay.
Also, if you mail someone and then get a reply that says "You have mailed who has decided he requires you to post a bond of 2 cents for him to pay attention to your mail. Please use one of the bond posting services listed at