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Re: No privacy with DigiCash

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Cooper)
Sat Dec 24 09:55:58 1994

Date: Sat, 24 Dec 1994 09:39:58 -0500 (EST)
From: Jonathan Cooper <entropy@IntNet.net>
To: Hal <hfinney@shell.portal.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199412210221.SAA18077@jobe.shell.portal.com>

> This is a really bad way of doing it IMO because it seems to defeat
> one of the big selling points of DigiCash.  Is there something I am
> overlooking, some way to buy things privately with DigiCash?

   I don't think so.  It appears that the initial implementation of 
DigiCash works exactly that way [based on what I've read on their W3 
server].  Of course, I could tell you more exactly had they replied to 
any of my four separate attempts to try it out ..

-jon
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