German ct magazine postulates death of pgp encryption

[Jonathan Schleifer]

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Am 01.03.2015 um 23:25 schrieb Ingo Klöcker <kloecker at kde.org>:

> And most spam is sent by bots. The spammers don't really care how much
> energy the bots burn. Yes, the amount of spam might decrease because
> the bots cannot hammer out that many bitmessages as SMTP messages per
> second, but your hypothesis that BitMessage would get rid of spam is
> unrealistic.

I don't really agree with that. The goal is that the proof of work for a
single message takes 4 minutes. At that rate, sending spam really is not
profitable. In 4 minutes, spammers can currently send hundreds of
thousands of mails. At that rate, they can afford to send it to every
address they can find. With only one mail per machine every 4 minutes,
they really need to be careful where to send it. Let's assume they have
10000 machines (which is unrealistic - most machines are behind a dialup
connection from which no provider will accept mail). That's only 2500
mails a minute. If global spam were just 2500 spam messages a minute,
spam would hardly be a problem.

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Jonathan
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