Re: [Asrg] Accreditation Mechanism Proposal

[Seth Breidbart <sethb at panix.com>]

Yakov Shafranovich <research@solidmatrix.com> wrote:

> Yes, I read Microsoft's proposals about different types of tricks
> for different domains, for example hash cash-type puzzles for
> smaller domains in lieu of accreditation. I am still not convinced
> that a given ISP will bother with supporting both accreditation and
> hash cash, they just might take the easy way out and only support
> accreditation services.

So somebody will run an "accreditation" service that says "they
answered a hash-cash request for your message".  Yes, this requires
passing the Message-ID around to prevent a DoS attack, and probably
some other tricks; but there's nothing preventing it from happening.

Seth

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