[hashcash] Re: comment on reducing padding (Re: Re: libfastmint update 20040915)

Adam Back wrote:

Yes I thought about this one also.  However the downside is one can no
longer easily verifying a stamp in script languages using the sha1sum
utility.  One first would have to undeo the padding compression.

I do not see much value in being able to verify using sha1sum except as a party trick. If this option is valuable and slower, it's probably worth making it a separate path of the code.

---eric

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