1995-11-09 - Re: ecash speed

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From: “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@piermont.com>
To: Hal <hfinney@shell.portal.com>
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UTC Datetime: 1995-11-09 02:42:30 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 10:42:30 +0800

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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 10:42:30 +0800
To: Hal <hfinney@shell.portal.com>
Subject: Re: ecash speed
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Hal writes:
> The point is that if the anonymity afforded by ecash is too costly in
> terms of time, then we may end up stuck with a non-anonymous system
> simply because that is the only one efficient enough to work.  It would
> be good to find out if that is a serious problem.

I suspect that as CPU speed exponentiates this will become less and
less of a problem. It doesn't especially worry me.

Perry





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