1996-06-20 - Re: German Federal Bank opposes e-cash

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From: “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@piermont.com>
To: iang@cs.berkeley.edu (Ian Goldberg)
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UTC Datetime: 1996-06-20 02:15:40 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 10:15:40 +0800

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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 10:15:40 +0800
To: iang@cs.berkeley.edu (Ian Goldberg)
Subject: Re: German Federal Bank opposes e-cash
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Ian Goldberg writes:
> I don't get this worry about counterfeiting.  It would seem to be harder to
> counterfeit ecash than paper cash (though, admittedly, it would be harder to
> track, but it would almost certainly have to be an "inside job").  Maybe
> the journalists are just misinformed, or possibly the banking people?

I think that the fear is that counterfeit E-Cash is much easier to
pass and much more "perfect", though I think that with proper controls
the system is indeed more secure than paper currency.

.pm

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