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Re: Prayer to A.M. Turing

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NODE f0c33d1bRe: Prayer to A.M. Turing bureau42 Anonymous Remailer <remailer@bureau42.ml.org>Mon, 8 Sep 1997 23:33:17 +0800

Adam Back wrote:
>Monty Cantain writes:
>> Oh Lord Turing, God of Messages and Pathways, please reduce the
>> latency time of the remailer network!  Please accept this humble
>> offering: 10110AlanMathisonTuring8ef2b1912670b51
>
>Your email to Lord Turing may bounce, your hashcash postage doesn't
>collide:
>
>% ashcash AlanMathisonTuring 10110AlanMathisonTuring8ef2b1912670b51
>collision: 0 bits
>%

Add an "f".

AMT

NODE fa8723e3Re: Prayer to A.M. Turing Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>Thu, 11 Sep 1997 07:00:14 +0800

Alan Turing writes:
> Adam Back wrote:
> >Your email to Lord Turing may bounce, your hashcash postage doesn't
> >collide:
> >
> >% ashcash AlanMathisonTuring 10110AlanMathisonTuring8ef2b1912670b51
> >collision: 0 bits
> >%
> 
> Add an "f".

Impressed:

% hashcash AlanMathisonTuring 10110AlanMathisonTuring8ef2b1912670b51f
collision: 33 bits
%

That collision would take 30 hours to generate on my pentium.

Adam