[43131] in Cypherpunks
Re: ecash speed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Wed Nov 8 20:50:37 1995
To: Hal <hfinney@shell.portal.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 08 Nov 1995 15:45:57 PST."
<199511082345.PAA02628@jobe.shell.portal.com>
Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 1995 20:30:14 -0500
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Hal writes:
> The point is that if the anonymity afforded by ecash is too costly in
> terms of time, then we may end up stuck with a non-anonymous system
> simply because that is the only one efficient enough to work. It would
> be good to find out if that is a serious problem.
I suspect that as CPU speed exponentiates this will become less and
less of a problem. It doesn't especially worry me.
Perry
