[87273] in Cypherpunks
Re: Remailers and ecash
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Sat Sep 27 14:15:50 1997
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 13:26:20 -0400
From: Anonymous <anon@anon.efga.org>
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: Anonymous <anon@anon.efga.org>
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Steve Schear wrote:
>At 3:18 AM -0400 9/27/97, Anonymous (sic) wrote:
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>>Just out of a curiousity, why is it that no remailers accept ecash?
>>(This is not a jibe at remailer operators or authors of remailer
>>software. I am really curious if this is a "didn't get to it yet"
>>sort of thing, or if there's something hard about it.)
>
>One item which has been missing is an accessible API. (The Digicash
>merchant software is, I believe, designed for online use only.) This
>need is about to be fulfilled.
Digicash has software for Unix platforms which one could very easily
call from a Perl script. Sure, it wouldn't be pretty, it wouldn't be
ideal, but it would work and should be easy to incorporate into many
of the remailers. (I think.)
Monty Cantsin
Editor in Chief
Smile Magazine
http://www.neoism.org/squares/smile_index.html
http://www.neoism.org/squares/cantsin_10.html
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