Re: Anonymous cash via blinded authentication

James A. Donald (jamesd@echeque.com)
Wed, 17 Mar 1999 22:38:03 -0800

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At 11:02 PM 3/15/99 +0100, Anonymous wrote:
> The main question here is whether the bank's activity can be described by:
>
> signing each of said first messages by a signing party applying
> a public key digital signature thereto to produce a corresponding
> plurality of digital second messages;
>
> where
>
> the public key digital signatures of said resulting digital messages
> are checkable using a public key
>
> Taking the position of the patent holder, he could argue that the cash
> values are in fact checkable. There exists a protocol for checking
> them,

If the software does not in fact implement that patented protocol, then the
counter argument would be that the values are not checkable.

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