[4278] in Kerberos
Announcing availability of NetCheque
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Clifford Neuman)
Sat Dec 3 20:32:56 1994
Date: Sat, 3 Dec 1994 17:20:03 -0800
From: Clifford Neuman <bcn@ISI.EDU>
To: www-buyinfo@allegra.att.com, kerberos@MIT.EDU
NetCheque(TM) is an electronic payment system for the Internet
developed at the Information Sciences Institute of the University of
Southern California. Users registered with NetCheque accounting
servers are able to write checks to other users. When deposited, the
check authorize the transfer of funds from one account to another.
NetCheque uses Kerberos to protect electronic checks.
A binary NetCheque release is available for Sun4 systems running SunOS.
A source release, and binary releases for other architectures will be
available within several weeks.
To write checks or deposit checks you will require a a NetCheque
account. Eventually, there will be many accounting servers from which
you can obtain an account, but in the early stages of the trial, there
is only one. You must fill out the account application, which may be
obtained by sending an e-mail request to NetCheque@isi.edu.
Though we can grant NetCheque accounts to anyone that requests one,
because the software uses encryption to protect the checks we regret
that we will not be able to send the software itself to users outside
the United States. Users in the United States may retrieve the
software from prospero.isi.edu in the directory /pub/netcheque/distribution.
Additional information on NetCheque can be found through our home
page:
http://nii-server.isi.edu/info/NetCheque/
Payments using NetCheque originate from named user accounts, providing
no anonymity. We are also working on an electronic currency system
called NetCash to support weakly anonymous payments. The NetCash
system was described in a paper in the 1993 ACM Conference on Computer
and Communications security, available through our home page.
Clifford Neuman
Gennady (Ari) Medvinsky
