[42744] in Cypherpunks
Re: ecash remailer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laurent Demailly)
Thu Nov 2 19:14:06 1995
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 1995 00:49:40 +0100
From: Laurent Demailly <dl@hplyot.obspm.fr>
To: hallam@w3.org
Cc: rajaram@morgan.com (P. Rajaram), cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <9511022231.AA08841@zorch.w3.org>
hallam@w3.org writes:
> >So, refuse to buy their money.
> >Demand open systems.
> One problem a number of people have reported in DigiCash is disappearing
> money. Several people have reported that if a transfer is misconfigured
> the cash can flow out of the wallet, be rejected at the other end and
> disappear from the system - i.e. misprinted names on cheques mean lost cash!
No. please get first hand facts. I have 'laundered' more than e$
18000, by small amounts of a couple of e$, and *no* bucks were lost(1). I
do have to manually cancel some and to refund ppl from time to time,
and i must admit I'm a bit behind my mail answering about that... but
the money is *not* lost [for everybody]
> This is bad and they report that Digicash did not respond to their
> complaints.
They prolly addresses the complaints to the wrong ppl, money does not
disapear as long as you keep the log files to be able to "cancel"
'lost' ebucks
There are/were a couple of small problems with the ecash software, but
no money is lost, as long as you have a consistent file system
[and I think they are working on an "auto recovery/auto cancel"
feature...]
note that there are some problems, initially the proposed shop
software sucked for instance... and writing a better one was a key to
get the system better, maybe it is a bit too early for real bank
also... I think some bugs are still hanging around... but the idea is
great ! [i just wish to have sources/protocol fully disclosed before I
put real money in it...]
ps : I have no interest in digicash whatsoever except being partipant
to the trial and having a small shop {and thus having an fairly large
account ;-) I wish they give prices to 'good' shops ;-0)}
note1: at least I think no bucks were lost... not a high percentage at
least,... I did had some troubles with the first software version and
managed to *almost* lost stuff, my mismanipulation... but hey... if
your wallet has an hole, of if you throw away your money, you won't
whine to the ATM, would you ?
dl
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