[44179] in Cypherpunks
Re: ecash protocol: Part 1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ian Goldberg)
Wed Nov 29 19:20:12 1995
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: iagoldbe@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Ian Goldberg)
Date: 29 Nov 1995 19:14:06 -0500
Reply-To: iang@cs.berkeley.edu
In article <199511212146.NAA11456@cory.EECS.Berkeley.EDU>,
Ian Goldberg <iang@cory.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:
>I've managed to decipher a useful bit of the first message sent from
>the shop to the payer. It's the Payment Request, and contains the following
>information:
>
>o Header identifying packet as Payment Request
>o The integer 4
>o The payment amount, in cents
>o The time (seconds since 1970)
>o The integer 79
>o The name of the shop (payee)
>o A description of the item being paid for
>o An empty string
>o The integer 0
>o End of Record marker
>
>I don't know what the 4, 79, empty string, and 0 are for. I assume one
>of them (probably the 4) is some indication of currency (US cents).
I now know what the empty string and the 0 are for. In the event that
a Payment Request is sent out-of-band (in an application/ecash message,
for example), the string and integer are the hostname and port (commonly
1100) to which the payer should connect in order to send a payment.
- Ian "Wait for it..."
