It looks like Dr. Stefan Brands' book, "Rethinking Public Key Infrastructures and Digital Certificates; Building in Privacy", with outstanding discussion of, among other things, ;-), internet bearer transactions, has gone through the mill at MIT press and come out the other side. If you couldn't get a copy of it when Stefan offered it as a self-published version of his doctoral thesis, now's the time to get it. Cheers, RAH --- begin forwarded text From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 00:05:22 +0200 To: "R. A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: MIT Press book appeared Hi Bob, The MIT Press book edition has appeared. See http://www.xs4all.nl/~brands Regards, Stefan --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'