Re: Opportunistic signatures - a proposed design

Eric S. Johansson wrote:

>
> at the egress point for any aggregation of any number of e-mail users, 
> traffic patterns start to look significantly like a spammer.  The 
> greater the aggregation, the greater the likeness.
>
> now I am not talking about the mass mailer.  I'm talking about the 
> ordinary organizations such as the typical 500 person or larger size 
> company using e-mail to communicate with customers and suppliers.
>
> I state again that a significant philosophical point should be that 
> the ordinary communications between two parties should not be slowed 
> any more than necessary.  this philosophical point is why I'm arguing 
> for something other than hashcash for known party communications.  
> Today I use simple white lists.  I want something better.

Just to clarify something here. For the enterprise solution, do you 
envisage having one/many servers minting all email being sent outside 
the organisation (I'm assuming that internal mail won't have have to 
stamped as it is trusted), or do you see a solution where each client PC 
runs its own minter?

John.