[hashcash] Re: patch for mozilla thunderbird requested
- From: Adam Back <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Hashcash List <hashcash@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 23:25:45 +0200
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Adam
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:56:24 -0400
From: Blake Winton <bwinton@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Adam Back <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Mike Shaver <shaver@xxxxxxx>, dmose@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [hashcash] patch for mozilla thunderbird requested
Hi Adam,
this isn't really my or dmose's area, but it seems like kind of a neat
idea, and I would be willing to help you (or someone else) write the
patch.
The first step would be to get Thunderbird building, which you should
be able to do by following the steps at
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Simple_Thunderbird_build
Please let me know if you run into any problems.
Thanks,
Blake.
On 11-04-29 15:00 , Mike Shaver wrote:
Sorry for the delay getting back to you; copying some Thunderbird mavens here.
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I wonder if we could get somewhere by asking on thunderbird-dev list.
Mike do you know anyone with an interest in anti-spam, hashcash types
of things from thunderbird side of mozilla?
We want to wrap up this ages old bug mentioned below that has been
bouncing around for ages and actually implement something! We can do
the hashcash
library part we lack thunderbird programming experience.
btw something that may help the attractiveness is if hashcash library
supports also the microsoft hashcash spec [1] - its free to use and I
think open source compatible even unusually for anything microsoft
related.
While they basically adaopted hashcash the serialization is
incompatible. I'll volunteer to code that spec and add it to hashcash.
hashcash already has both a library (libhashcash.a/hashcash.dll and a
command line tool and an example program using the library -
example.c) (Note you want to get the pre-release if you want to try
the example.c it
suffered bit rot I noticed).
Adam
[1]
http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/d/d/5dd33fdf-91f5-496d-9884-0a0b0ee698bb/%5BMS-OXPSVAL%5D.pdf
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 03:20:43PM +0200, Bas Steendijk wrote:
in the feature request to add hashcash in mozilla thunderbird,
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=229686
which currently has status "WONTFIX", after i countered the arguments
that caused it to get that status, the following happened:
i gave argument:
"this request is not about adding the 16 MB library, but about adding
hashcash, which is simple and can be implemented in little size."
Ludovic Hirlimann then posted:
"Please provide a patch so we can figure out how much this would add
and then decide if we want it in the product or not."
i'm asking hereby if someone can produce a patch to add hashcash to
thunderbird, and post on there.
--
Blake Winton Thunderbird Front End
bwinton@xxxxxxxxxxx
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