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Re: ecash remailer

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (P. Rajaram)
Thu Nov 2 12:21:48 1995

Date: Thu, 2 Nov 1995 12:09:56 -0500
From: rajaram@morgan.com (P. Rajaram)
In-Reply-To: Hal <hfinney@shell.portal.com>
        "Re: ecash remailer" (Nov  2,  7:23am)
To: Hal <hfinney@shell.portal.com>, cypherpunks@toad.com

On Nov 2,  7:23am, Hal wrote:
> Subject: Re: ecash remailer
> It's very frustrating to have to speculate so much due to the lack of
> information.  Imagine how we would react if Cybercash or Netscape had
> gone forward with what they claimed were secure protocols but had
> refused to publish them, referring simply to old papers on RSA and
> DES.  Yet Digicash gets away with this.

So, refuse to buy their money.
Demand open systems.

If you feel like being more terroristic, get Markoff to write an article
on how a cypherpunk expert feels that the Mark Twain Bankshares system
'may' be insecure.

-r

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