[45038] in Cypherpunks
Re: Still more on the Digicash protocol
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Futplex)
Sat Dec 9 02:43:25 1995
To: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks Mailing List)
Date: Sat, 9 Dec 1995 02:38:56 -0500 (EST)
Reply-To: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks Mailing List)
In-Reply-To: <199512082234.OAA02297@ix9.ix.netcom.com> from "Bill Stewart" at Dec 8, 95 02:35:05 pm
From: futplex@pseudonym.com (Futplex)
Mark Twain Bank Ecash Support writes:
> DigiCash agrees that it is desirable to encrypt the payment request. The
> problem is how? You can't use the payor's public key, since the payor is
> anonymous to the payee.
Bill Stewart writes:
# Obviously if the payer is the one transmitting the message, she doesn't
# use her public key to encrypt; hers would be used for signature if
# appropriate.
# She should use the payee's public key,
[...]
But the payment request is sent from the shop (payee) to the customer (payor).
-Futplex <futplex@pseudonym.com>
"Women need a reason to have sex; men just need a place" -from a fitness mag.
