Re: comment on reducing padding
Jonathan Morton <[email protected]>
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> according to my own non-scientific research, most email addresses are > 15-30 characters. the amount of padding these stamps contain just > seems ridiculous. Most users won't see it. How many ordinary users do you know who regularly read mail with "full headers" displayed? The padding is there for performance reasons - putting the tail of the count field in the right place adds 10-15% performance, easily. Anyway, the padding gets "used up" quite neatly if you start adding extension fields, such as: arowana:~/Desktop/hashcash-1.08 chromi$ ./hashcash -m -b20 -x "[email protected]" [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] hashcash token: 1:20:040917:[email protected]:[email protected]: UgULgAZ3+AzulJjt:0000000000AxTh hashcash token: 1:20:040917:[email protected]:[email protected]: Fs724fbpHyj2GMl3:0000000rhD hashcash token: 1:20:040917:[email protected]:[email protected]: 5KffdR4UaavmwQDW:00005KUV -------------------------------------------------------------- from: Jonathan "Chromatix" Morton mail: [email protected] website: http://www.chromatix.uklinux.net/ tagline: The key to knowledge is not to rely on people to teach you it.