R. A. Hettinga wrote:
The reason we have ready availability of credit in the first place
is because consumer debt is the most profitable business in the
United States.
I really wonder what component of this market is actually payment
driven. After all, to easily buy *anything* over,
To help flog the second edition of Disappearing Cryptography and
encourage a general education in things steganographic, I'm
continuing to roll out Java applets on the book's website. The latest
applet lets you hide information in the noise of an image. That is,
replace the least significant
On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 08:23:39PM -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote:
| On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 09:20:32PM -0400, Steve Furlong wrote:
| And most of the sheeple _like_ it. They'd rather be safe than free. For
| every complaint I've heard about having to reassure the bank that the
| card wasn't
On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 10:18:41AM -0400, Sandy Harris wrote:
| Morlock Elloi wrote:
|
| Mental constructs like this one, complicated schemes that require knowledge of
| modular aritmetic to understand, is why this will not happen.
|
| Whatever aspires to replace paper cash for purposes
Morlock Elloi[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
payment is the one who pays the 1-3% transaction charge. The payer pays
nothing.
There are more and more brick shops that charge 3% *more* for credit card
payments via principle of 3% cash discount.
The CC commission is calculated into
Go after those who already _know_ they need untraceability. Go after
niches where VALUE COST. Don't try to argue that the world needs to
replace its multi-billion dollar infrastructure of
The question is - are there enough of these to justify development. Or maybe
they all already have
At 1:01 PM +0100 on 5/13/02, Ken Brown wrote:
I really wonder what component of this market is actually payment
driven. After all, to easily buy *anything* over, say, $100 right
now, you have to borrow money, use a credit card, to do it.
?
I use a debit card, one that draws against my
On Monday, May 13, 2002, at 09:11 AM, Adam Shostack wrote:
It also requires that the early adopters can convince merchants and
banks to jump into a system from which they get none of the benefits
which motivate Alice and Bob and me to adopt ecash. I want ecash for
privacy; why do the
At 01:41 PM 5/13/2002 -0400, you wrote:
http://www.newsbytes.com/cgi-bin/udt/im.display.printable?client.id=newsbytesstory.id=176497
Jupiter Analyst, RIAA Trade Barbs Over P2P Findings
By Kevin Featherly, Newsbytes
WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A.,
09 May 2002, 4:47 PM CST
The industry
On Sun, 12 May 2002, Ian Grigg wrote:
The problem with paying for anything over $100 is
having the money with you at that time.
Most such purchases are not 'off the cuff'. They are planned.
Most purchases are done at some random future time,
Bullshit, most folks plan their future
Trei, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Bill: you might want to look at: www.siswg.org, which is looking at just
this
problem. Here's the meat of a couple messages I received about it:
The IEEE Technical Committee on Information Assurance has
started a standards project on storage
On Sun, 12 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Huge numbers of people use modular arithmetic to secure their
credit card numbers, their transactions with overseas banks in tax
havens, their transfers of e-gold. They do not to understand
modular arithmetic. They just understand that third
On Sun, 12 May 2002, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
Think about what you just said, there. Don't you realize that 1:M
*always* starts 1:1? It's the same kind of
evil-bourgeois-businessman hierarchical command-economy argument
that aristocrats and peasants throw around. It's amazing how this
kind of
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At 1:20 PM -0700 on 5/13/02, Morlock Elloi wrote:
Go after those who already _know_ they need untraceability. Go
after niches where VALUE COST. Don't try to argue that the
world needs to replace its multi-billion dollar infrastructure of
The question
Codes Ciphers: Julius Ceasar, the Enigma, and the Internet
R. Churchhouse
ISBN ISBN 0-521-00890-5
This looks to be a great book for intermediate readers (or beginners who
have the math). It's nowhere near the completeness or complexity of
Applied Cryptography, but then for $20 who would expect
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