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Re: Who needs time vaults anyway?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Sat Nov 11 15:42:45 1995

Date: Sat, 11 Nov 1995 15:37:20 -0500
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: rah@shipwright.com (Robert Hettinga)

>An application that I've seen is financial data, more specifically
>MBS payment info.

In the real world, there's a trustee/nominee of some sort who does this.
What's that to keep that from happening on the net, just like our much
maligned (guy's gotta make a living, fer chrissake!) assassination-payoff
escrow agent...


Cheers,
Bob Hettinga

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