I have some objections and question to this. 1. Anonymity does not seem to be supported. Isn't that a key for any kind of petty-cash replacement?
2. Although Mr. Rivest probably have had great use of his share of the RSA IPR, times have changed and patents have become out-of-fashion, particularly in the Europe. Anders ----- Original Message ----- From: "MacDougall, Alan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 22:20 Subject: RE: Solving the problem of micropayments It's a *very* nifty idea. I saw Ron Rivest's presentation on it at RSA 2002 - the powerpoint is here: http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~rivest/MicaliRivest-MicropaymentsRevisited.ppt and the actual paper (a bit technical) is here: http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~rivest/MicaliRivest-MicropaymentsRevisited.pdf later Alan -- Alan Macdougall, E-Commerce Strategy Team The National Bank of New Zealand Ltd <http://www.nationalbank.co.nz> > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 9:58 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Solving the problem of micropayments > > Great idea. It uses nothing more than what we all learned in high school > math (except for the part about securing the coins). > > Alan This communication is confidential and may contain privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient you must not use, disclose, copy or retain it. If you have received it in error please immediately notify me by return email and delete the emails. Thank you.
