Re: [Asrg] attention bonds, was Email Postage

[Rich Kulawiec <rsk at gsp.org>]

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 01:31:29PM -0600, David Nicol wrote:
> I disagree.  Rich, and others who maintain this conviction, seem to be
> blind to the gap between "apply the scheme to those who sign up for
> the scheme" and "apply the scheme to everyone in general from the top,
> down, as if there was a top that could enforce application of the
> scheme"

Irrelevant, *and* a mischaracterization of my position.

It's irrelevant because it doesn't matter which of the two scenarios
above prevails; all of these schemes are pre-failed because they
all presume that something is true which is emphatically false: network
endpoints are secure.  All of these proposals thus amount to attempts
to layer a trust mechanism on top of an already-known badly-broken base.

(And, I might add, a base which continues to become still more broken,
both in terms of extent and severity.)

---Rsk
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