Digital postage and remailer abuse (was Re: Novel use of Usenet and remailersto mailbomb from luzskru at cpcnet.com)

[Lucky Green]

At 8:47 1/13/96, Alan Bostick wrote:

>Maybe I'm misunderstanding how using digital postage with remailers would
>work.  I was assuming that the postage stamp would be included *inside*
>the encrypted envelope, that what the remailer would do on receipt of
>mail would be: (a) decrypt the envelope; (b) validate the postage stamp;
>and (if the stamp is valid) (c) forward the message according to the
>now-decryped instructions.
>
>Using this model, if the perpetrator doesn't include a postage stamp,
>then the message is ignored.  If the perp includes a stamp, the first
>horny net geek's message is relayed but subsequent ones get bounced for
>invalid postage.

You are right.

-- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock at netcom.com>
   PGP encrypted mail preferred.