From: Jim McCoy <mccoy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu>
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 93 12:40:08 PST
To: hfinney@shell.portal.com (Hal Finney)
Subject: Re: Authorized cash?
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[regarding Chaum's digital cash work and possibly using that for net.money]
> Chaum has a patent, I've heard, on the "blinding" that is an important
> part of at least the simpler cash proposals.  If he were willing to
> authorize a cypherpunks cash system it would remove one legal hurdle
> to its implementation.  Does anyone know whether he might be willing to
> do this?

Strangely enough, his secretary and I have been exchanging email trying to
arrange a time when he can catch me by phone for the past few days...

I will ask him :)

jim