[43652] in Cypherpunks
RE:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Anderson)
Sun Nov 19 20:04:49 1995
From: Eric Anderson <ericande@cnw.com>
To: "'anonymous-remailer@shell.portal.com'"
<anonymous-remailer@shell.portal.com>,
"'cypherpunks@toad.com'"
<cypherpunks@toad.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 1995 16:11:46 -0800
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From: anonymous-remailer@shell.portal.com[SMTP:anonymous-remailer@shell.portal.com]
Sent: Friday, November 17, 1995 7:31 PM
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Shoe-horning Mondex onto the Internet -- still won't fit
>+ According to inside sources, is grossly vulnerable to replay attacks
>(offline multi-spending to different parties)
>-- Mondex has security holes
>-- Customers who defraud Mondex-using banks have legal deniability in a
>court of law: they can simply request banks to produce the security
>protocols as evidence; if they refuse the case is thrown out of
>court (precedent: UK and US phantom-ATM withdrawal cases)
HEY-sounds GREAT to me, I'm ALL FOR IT!!!