[42712] in Cypherpunks
Info needed on observers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leo Van Hove)
Thu Nov 2 10:55:40 1995
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 95 16:51:11 +0100
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: lvhove&vnet3.vub.ac.be@vnet3.vub.ac.be (Leo Van Hove)
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Hi,
I am currently preparing a paper on payment systems for the Internet
and related issues. I recently found out that so-called observers could
be placed on smart cards (in order to prevent double spending, or even to
prevent people from cheating on taxes...).
To be honest that's about all I know about observers and I am very eager
to find out more. I am, however, having a hard time finding interesting
references on this subject.
Hence, all suggestions to get me started would be extremely welcome.
Questions of particular interest are: possible functions (and limits),
how 'real' are they already?, what about privacy?, ...
Many thanks in advance.
leo
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Leo Van Hove
Centre for Financial Economics
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Free University of Brussels)
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B-1050 Brussels
Vox: +32 629.21.25
Fax: +32 2 629.22.82
e-mail: lvhove@vnet3.vub.ac.be
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