[3283] in Kerberos
Re: Anonymous Transactions / Anonymous Credit / EDI / Commerce
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Donald Sharp)
Mon May 16 11:55:49 1994
Date: Mon, 16 May 94 11:18:50 EDT
From: cc32859@vantage.fmrco.com (Donald Sharp)
To: harrisod%cs.rpi.edu@stowe.fmrco.com
Cc: kerberos%MIT.EDU@stowe.fmrco.com
In answer, I include a section from the Privacy & Anonymity FAQ
(obtainable via anonymous FTP from
rtfm.mit.edu:/pub/usenet/news.answers/net-privacy/ and posted to
newsgroups news.answers, sci.answers, alt.answers every 21 days.
Written by L. Detweiler <ld231782@longs.lance.colostate.edu>.
All rights reserved)
<7.1> What is ``digital cash''?
With digital encryption and authentication technologies, the
possibility of a widespread digital cash system may someday be
realized. A system utilizing codes sent between users and banks
(similar to today's checking system except entirely digital) may
be one approach. The issues of cryptography, privacy, and
anonymity are closely associated with transfer of cash in an
economy. See the article in Scientific American by David Chaum
(~Dec.1992).
An experimental digital bank is run by Karl Barrus
<elee9sf@Menudo.UH.EDU> based on suggestions by Hal Finney on the
cypherpunks mailing list. To use the server send mail to
elee7h5@rosebud.ee.uh.edu message with the following text:
::
command: help
user@host
where `user@host' is your email address.
A new set of Internet standards called Internet Mercantile Protocols
are being developed to support cash transactions in encrypted email.
See thumper.bellcore.com:/pub/devetzis/imp. Includes a mailing list
archive and other documents.
Some papers on the subject of digital cash are available from
ftp.cwi.nl:
- CS-R9323 Stefan Brands ``An Efficient Off-line Electronic Cash
System Based On The Representation Problem''
- CS-R9318 N. Ferguson ``Single Term Off-Line Coins''
Thanks to P. Honeyman <honey@citi.umich.edu> and J. McCoy
<mccoy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu> for contributions to this section.
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