From: Jonathan Cooper <entropy@IntNet.net>
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 94 18:41:37 PDT
To: John Douceur <johndo@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: e$ as "travellers check?
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> >> Digitally signed notes are not forgeable.
> 
> >   I doubt very seriously that there is anything on the planet that is
> >*ABSOLUTELY* unforgable.   It all comes down to how much energy and
> >resources one is willing to sink into the project.
> 
> This comment, unless I misunderstand it, supports (rather than refutes)
> Perry's rebuttal to the claim that forging digital traveller's checks
> would be "extremely easy."

   No - it just makes the point that there is almost nothing which is 
"not forgeable" with a suitable expenditure of effort & resources.

-jon
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