Anonymous wrote:
>
> Bill Stewart writes:
> > At 10:20 PM 11/21/1999 -0000, Some Ostensibly Anonymous Person remailed
> > an article to coderpunks, which Bob Hettinga reposted to cryptography
> > and probably also to cypherpunks. David Wagner's developed a blinding
> > method probably not covered by Chaum's existing patents, which
> > has been implemented in -Lucre, http://anoncvs.aldigital.co.uk/lucre/.
>
> Is the new "Lucre" related to the earlier "-lucre" by Ian Goldberg
> which was a public domain implemenation of the protocols used
> by the commercial ECash software? That is still available at
> ftp://csclub.waterloo.ca/pub/lucre. What is the connection, if any?
There's no connection except that clearly GMTA. And that the protocols
are, ermm, related. To be honest, I hadn't realised that Ian had an
implementation called "lucre" - the name for my package was my brother's
idea.
BTW, I can't resolve the FTP site mentioned.
Cheers,
Ben.
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