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diff --git a/security/hashcash/DESCR b/security/hashcash/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..5842e44f71b --- /dev/null +++ b/security/hashcash/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ + Hashcash is a denial-of-service counter measure tool. It's main current + use is to help hashcash users avoid losing email due to content based + and blacklist based anti-spam systems. + + The hashcash tool allows you to create hashcash tokens to attach to + emails you send, and to verify hashcash tokens attached to emails you + receive. Email senders attach hashcash tokens with the X-Hashcash: + header. Vendors and authors of anti-spam tools are encouraged to exempt + mail sent with hashcash from their blacklists and content based + filtering rules. |