[hashcash] Re: comment on reducing padding

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 "sender=chromi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" atom@xxxxxxxxxxx adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx hashcash@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
hashcash token: 1:20:040917:atom@xxxxxxxxxxx:sender=chromi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: UgULgAZ3+AzulJjt:0000000000AxTh
hashcash token: 1:20:040917:adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:sender=chromi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: Fs724fbpHyj2GMl3:0000000rhD
hashcash token: 1:20:040917:hashcash@xxxxxxxxxxxxx:sender=chromi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: 5KffdR4UaavmwQDW:00005KUV

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from:     Jonathan "Chromatix" Morton
mail:     chromi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
website:  http://www.chromatix.uklinux.net/
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