From: Brian D Williams <talon57@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 94 09:14:21 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: EFF's DIGICASH Archive
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compiled by Stanton McCandlish


EFF Digital Money & Online Commercial Transactions Archive

Index of:

ftp.eff.org, /pub/EFF/Policy/Privacy/Crypto_Clipper_ITAR/Digital_money/
gopher.eff.org, 1/EFF/Policy/Privacy/Crypto_Clipper_ITAR/Digital_money
http://www.eff.org/pub/EFF/Policy/Privacy/Crypto_Clipper_ITAR/Digital money/

chaum_privacy_id.article - David Chaum's August 1992 article from
                           Scientific America describing "blind signature'
                           technology and the possibilities of enhanced
                           digital privacy.  Such technology is behind
                           Chaum's "DigiCash" e-money system.

david_chaum.biblio - a 1994 list of publications by David Chaum,
                     "the father of digital money", and strong proponent
                     for online transaction systems that are anonymous
                     and cryptographically secure.

digicash.brochure - a 1994 brochure describing what DigiCash is.

digicash.gif - the DigiCash logo.  This is a GIF-format graphic file.

digicash.announce - May 1994 press release hailing digicash as the first
                    online cash payment system over computer networks.

double_spend_finney.notes - October 1993 notes from a mailing list
describing
                            Chaum's digital cash in lay terms, focussing
                            on the "double spending" problem that has
                            so far crippled attempts to institute online
                            transactions by others.  By Hal Finney.

ecash.gif - an "E-Cash" logo graphic (intended for use by merchants that
            accept DigiCash).

magic_money.announce - may 1994 description of Magic Money V1.1 with
                       autoclient and multiserver capability.  This is
                       an Internet-based digital money system.
 

online_banks.info - a listing of online banks worldwide, books about
                   online banking and a description of why online banking
                   increases the privacy of individuals.

online_cash_chaum.paper - Chaum's 1993 article describes 3 ways to make
                           online cash exchange work.

prepaid_smartcard_chaum.article - Chaum's 1994 paper explaining the
                                  technique of prepaid smartcards which
                                  contains stored value (in terms of
dollars)
                                  which a user might exchange with a vendor
                                  rather than cumbersome cash.

secure_newsgroup.paper - Marc Rinquette's August 1992 article on
                         implementing electrocnic cash using secure
                         newsgroups.

visa_e-purse.announce - 1994 article and commentary discussing "electronic
                         purse" proposal from Visa.