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Re: Marked cash in Lucre

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Mon Nov 22 18:50:05 1999

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Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 22:21:48 +0000
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
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Anonymous wrote:
> 
> Bill Stewart writes:
> > At 10:20 PM 11/21/1999 -0000, Some Ostensibly Anonymous Person remailed
> > an article to coderpunks, which Bob Hettinga reposted to cryptography
> > and probably also to cypherpunks.  David Wagner's developed a blinding
> > method probably not covered by Chaum's existing patents, which
> > has been implemented in -Lucre,  http://anoncvs.aldigital.co.uk/lucre/.
> 
> Is the new "Lucre" related to the earlier "-lucre" by Ian Goldberg
> which was a public domain implemenation of the protocols used
> by the commercial ECash software?  That is still available at
> ftp://csclub.waterloo.ca/pub/lucre.  What is the connection, if any?

There's no connection except that clearly GMTA. And that the protocols
are, ermm, related. To be honest, I hadn't realised that Ian had an
implementation called "lucre" - the name for my package was my brother's
idea.

BTW, I can't resolve the FTP site mentioned.

Cheers,

Ben.

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