1995-11-01 - Re: ecash remailer

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From: “Don M. Kitchen” <don@cs.byu.edu>
To: Cypherpunks Mailing List <cypherpunks@toad.com>
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UTC Datetime: 1995-11-01 01:22:23 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 09:22:23 +0800

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From: "Don M. Kitchen" <don@cs.byu.edu>
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 09:22:23 +0800
To: Cypherpunks Mailing List <cypherpunks@toad.com>
Subject: Re: ecash remailer
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>  > perpetrator, let's see... it's Ed.  Ed is now charged with theft and
>  > has an expensive and uncertain legal experience ahead of him.
>  
>  Alice-frames-Ed situation is functionally equivalent to the Bob-robs-Charlie
>  situation from the bank's perspective.

I suppose the word "receipt" might be handy to introduce into the entire
scheme. A dispute over who payed & who stole is solved with paperwork of some
sort. Although a digital signature is not necessarily valid (I don't even know
what the Utah Digital Signature Law does) but the bank, as rule-setter
is allowed to say that a digital receipt DOES bind the parties in some
way.

Don

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• 1995-10-31 (Wed, 1 Nov 1995 02:17:21 +0800) - ecash remailer - sameer <sameer@c2.org>
  • 1995-10-31 (Wed, 1 Nov 1995 03:33:11 +0800) - Re: ecash remailer - Hal <hfinney@shell.portal.com>
    • 1995-10-31 (Wed, 1 Nov 1995 05:33:03 +0800) - Re: ecash remailer - futplex@pseudonym.com (Futplex)
      • 1995-11-01 (Wed, 1 Nov 1995 09:22:23 +0800) - Re: ecash remailer - “Don M. Kitchen” <don@cs.byu.edu>
      • 1995-11-02 (Thu, 2 Nov 1995 12:17:49 +0800) - Re: ecash remailer - Michael Froomkin <froomkin@law.miami.edu>
      • 1995-11-03 (Sat, 4 Nov 1995 04:02:55 +0800) - Re: ecash remailer - Aleph One <aleph1@dfw.net>