From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 95 07:34:16 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: FORGED CANCELS of posts on n.a.n-a.m
Message-ID: <199510051434.HAA11824@blob.best.net>
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At 06:11 PM 10/5/95 +1000, David Gerard wrote:
> One thing that occurs to me: suppose I go to control, collect cancel messages,
> and build myself a collection of M1's that will work with a given M2?
>
> That is, I can't actually invert the hashing function. But if a given
> hash function is standard, then I can eventually build up a collection of
> M1s for M2s that will let me cancel quite a few things I may want to.
> How many cancel messages come through in a day?

Considerably less than 340,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

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