[107513] in Cypherpunks
RE: Bad money driving (was: RE: Suggestion for Public Echelon co
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brown, R Ken)
Fri Jan 15 12:18:01 1999
From: "Brown, R Ken" <brownrk1@texaco.com>
To: "'ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk'" <ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk>
Cc: "'cypherpunks@cyberpass.net'" <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net>
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 10:54:45 -0600
Reply-To: "Brown, R Ken" <brownrk1@texaco.com>
David Hansen davidh@spidacom.co.uk[SMTP:davidh@spidacom.co.uk] wrote:
>> biggest
>> players in that market IIRC are the UK Royal Mint & DeLaRue - who
>> presumably know a lot about cryptography & security)
>The latter possibly, inasmuch as it relates to printing. Not sure
>about the former, why would they?
Whoops! You are completely right of course I was confusing the Royal Mint
which mints coins for foreign governments as well and the UK with banknote
printing which in England at any rate is done by the Bank of England. (And,
of course, Scottish and Northern Irish banks can print their own money even
though English banks aren't allowed to). My fault, should have checked, I
wrote "Royal Mint" without thinking. I somehow suspect they take security
seriously of course...
Ken Brown
