Hashcash - Technical Details

Technical Details

The header line looks something like this:

X-Hashcash: 1:20:060408:adam@cypherspace.org::1QTjaYd7niiQA/sc:ePa

The header contains: the recipient's email address, the date, and information proving the required computation has been performed. The presence of the recipient's email address requires that a new header be computed for each recipient, and the date allows the recipient to record headers received recently and make sure the header is unique to this email.

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