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Re: Digital Contracts: "Lie in X.509, Go to Jail"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Wed Oct 20 08:43:28 1999
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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 00:35:30 -0400
To: Dan Geer <geer@world.std.com>
From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
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At 10:24 PM -0400 on 10/19/99, Dan Geer wrote:
> What is it about wanting to change the instantaneous & electronic world
> that generates this sort of time & paper hazing ritual?
The lack of bearer microcash? :-).
Once again, the cobbler's children have no shoes...
Cheers,
RAH
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Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com>
The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/>
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"... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
