[45325] in Cypherpunks
Re: e-Cash: CAFE vs. Mondex
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Wed Dec 13 09:55:41 1995
From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
To: schunter@informatik.uni-hildesheim.de (Matthias Schunter)
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 09:46:53 -0500 (EST)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks Mailing List)
In-Reply-To: <v02120d09acf307537019@[147.172.54.29]> from "Matthias Schunter" at Dec 12, 95 11:34:58 am
Matthias Schunter wrote:
| The CAFE system is a cheque based system. This means that the
| customer receives an electronic chequebook, where each cheque is
| (blindly) signed by the bank.
| During each payment the customer has to use one of these signed cheques.
| privacy-protecting
| The privacy of the user is protected.
How do checks protect the privacy of the user? The bank
knows who is spending how much with whom for each check.
Adam
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"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
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