From: loki@infonex.com (Lance Cottrell)
Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 11:14:21 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: The Crisis with Remailers
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At 9:00 AM 5/18/96, Dr. Dimitri Vulis wrote:
>"Vladimir Z. Nuri" <vznuri@netcom.com> writes:
>> 1. there is no economic incentive.
>
>So, add the code to mixmaster (and even the old style remailers) to
>collect e-cash as it passes on the anonymous message. Then this will
>be a good way to accumulate some e-cash, and a number of people will
>try running remailers for this very purpose. Witness the recent
>Usenet spam by someone advertizing a for-pay remailer.
>

I was invited to the digicash API design meeting precisely to make sure it
could be used in remailers. It will not be using the current API. The
problem is that Mixmaster requires exact knowledge of the size of every
object in the message, to maintain constant message size. I could set aside
room for one, two, three coins, but there is no guarantee that the payment
will be made with only that many coins. The current API is going to be high
level. It will does not allow the program to know anything about the
internals of the payment. I need to be able to specify payment of amount X
using no more than N coins. As soon as I have that level of control, you
will see postage in Mixmaster.

        -Lance

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Lance Cottrell   loki@obscura.com
PGP 2.6 key available by finger or server.
Mixmaster, the next generation remailer, is now available!
http://www.obscura.com/~loki/Welcome.html or FTP to obscura.com

"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra.  Suddenly
it flips over, pinning you underneath.  At night the ice
weasels come."
                        --Nietzsche
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