[13429] in Cypherpunks
Re: Why Digital Cash is Not Being Used
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russell Nelson)
Tue May 10 18:18:04 1994
Date: Tue, 10 May 94 15:53 EDT
From: nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson)
To: tcmay@netcom.com
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199405031848.LAA13081@netcom.netcom.com> (tcmay@netcom.com)
Date: Tue, 3 May 1994 11:48:18 -0800
From: tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May)
- Digital Postage. This remains my favorite. There's a _need_ for
untraceable payments (else why use a remailer?). I've written about this
extensively, as have others.
If remailers offered robust (see above point about crufty, flaky, hobby
remailers) services that they operated as _businesses_, with reasonable
attention to reliability, interconnectivity to other remailers, overall
robustness, and carefully articulated policies about logging, privacy,
etc., then MM or something similar could have a real value.
But there's a conflict here. You'd like to be able to use the same
postage on multiple remailers. But if the remailers know each other
well enough to agree on a common currency, then they know each other
well enough to remove the reason for using multiple remailers.
