[13450] in Cypherpunks
Re: Real DigiCash !
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russell Whitaker)
Wed May 11 08:46:40 1994
From: whitaker@dpair.csd.sgi.com (Russell Whitaker)
Date: Wed, 11 May 1994 05:40:08 -0700
In-Reply-To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@snark.imsi.com>
"Re: Real DigiCash !" (May 10, 5:13pm)
To: perry@imsi.com, geoffw@nexsys.net (Geoff White)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
On May 10, 5:13pm, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> Subject: Re: Real DigiCash !
>
> Geoff White says:
> > Real DigiCash !
>
> In the subject of a message about
>
> > MONDEX SPECIFICATIONS FOR ELECTRONIC CASH PAYMENT RELEASED
>
> So far as anyone knows, Modex has no cryptographic security, and thus
> isn't "real digicash" by any stretch.
>
Mondex is more of a reloadable stored value card. There are no provisions for
anonymity in the system.
Russell
> Perry
>-- End of excerpt from Perry E. Metzger
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