Re: [Asrg] Too Big to Block?

[der Mouse <mouse at Rodents-Montreal.ORG>]

>>> The introduction of reputation services [...]
>> We already have blacklists,
> Blacklists are, at most, one-bit reputiation services (which nobody
> would pay "two-bits" for).

At work (an ISP) we're paying substantially more than two bits for
access to a blacklist.  We find it worth it.

>> 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.

> Making ePostage work is clearly possible in an environment of [...]

Quite possibly.  Are such environments common enough to matter?

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.

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