Re: ecash, cut choose and private credentials (Re: Jim Bell)

2000-12-05 Thread James A. Donald
-- Adam Back wrote: I think the thing that killed MT / digicash for this application was MT at the time was reported to be closing accounts related to pornography -- they apparently didn't want the reputation for providing payment mechanisms for the porn industry or

Re: ecash, cut choose and private credentials (Re: Jim Bell)

2000-12-04 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: There have been many attempts at ecash, but I am not aware of any products involving useful, spendable, convenient, anonymous ecash targeted at that or similar markets [immoral or illegal]. The only really usable anonymous ecash was that of the Mark Twain

Re: ecash, cut choose and private credentials (Re: Jim Bell)

2000-12-03 Thread Adam Back
James wrote: Adam Back wrote: Hal says: http://www.finney.org/~hal/chcash1.html and http://www.finney.org/~hal/chcash2.html Wow look at the dates on those files -- Oct 93, and we still no deployed ecash. You'd think there would be a market there for porn sites alone

Re: ecash, cut choose and private credentials (Re: Jim Bell)

2000-11-30 Thread Ben Laurie
Apologies for indirect routing :-) Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 22:41:07 -0500 From: Adam Back [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unfortunately both Brands' and Chaum's ecash and credential schemes are patented. David Wagner et al also had some ideas about an ecash coin [3] composed

ecash, cut choose and private credentials (Re: Jim Bell)

2000-11-28 Thread Adam Back
[Hey Hal, what happened to your Chaum's ecash description? Can't find it to link to]. Anonymous wrote: Ray wrote: Even if she provides enough tokens to completely populate the cut-and-choose protocol, those tokens still have to have splits of valid identification information for