From: Adam Shostack <adam@lighthouse.homeport.org>
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 23:39:13 +0800
To: schunter@informatik.uni-hildesheim.de (Matthias Schunter)
Subject: Re: e-Cash: CAFE vs. Mondex
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Message-ID: <199512131446.JAA10908@homeport.org>
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Matthias Schunter wrote:

| The CAFE system is a cheque based system. This means that the
| customer receives an electronic chequebook, where each cheque is
| (blindly) signed by the bank.  
| During each payment the customer has to use one of these signed cheques.

|  privacy-protecting
|    The privacy of the user is protected.

	How do checks protect the privacy of the user?  The bank
knows who is spending how much with whom for each check.

Adam


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