From: "Rev. Mark Grant" <mark@unicorn.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 95 09:47:11 PDT
To: Hal <hfinney@shell.portal.com>
Subject: Re: Full text of David Chaum's Congressional speech
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On Thu, 27 Jul 1995, Hal wrote:

> There are some technical counter-measures though.  One is to have some
> secure tamper-proof hardware which enforces certain kinds of ecash
> transfers. 

Yes, that's what I was thinking too... you'd have to hack the software 
to do it with the current Ecash implementation, but it ought to be 
possible if you had to.

> IMO payee anonymity will be a desired feature of
> ecash systems and I think Chaum is making a mistake claiming that it will
> not or should not exist.

Yep, I agree...

> Another quibble is that blackmail is not a good example. 

Ooops... brainfade.. yes you're right 8-)..

	Mark