From: John Douceur <johndo@microsoft.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 94 16:46:13 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: e$ as "travellers check?
Message-ID: <9408292346.AA13380@netmail2.microsoft.com>
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>From: Jonathan Cooper  <entropy@IntNet.net>
>Date: Monday, August 29, 1994 6:45PM

>> > 	traveller's checks are an extremely easy way to defraud
>> > 	any bank that issues them,  what will happen to this
>> >  	difficulty factor if they are anonymous ?
>>
>> Digitally signed notes are not forgeable.

>   Right.

>   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."

Sticking in my nose where it doesn't belong,

JD


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