From: iang@cs.berkeley.edu (Ian Goldberg)
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 07:31:19 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Recipients get the postage
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In article <adef7a0e030210043ecb@[205.199.118.202]>,
Timothy C. May <tcmay@got.net> wrote:
>Again, I always enjoy gedankenexperiments about digital postage. But I am
>chagrinned that nearly four years after the first remailers we are still
>operating in thought experiment mode for the most part.
>
>I believe this is because there really is very little market at this time
>for anonymous remailings. Those who mostly use remailers appear to be
>willing to use casual-grade remailers, with few of the real Chaumian
>protections. And they are not very concerned about reliablity, cover
>traffic, etc.

I disagree.  I think the main reason that postage has not appeared for
remailers is that there is no good way to integrate Chaumian cash into
applications.  Now, with two (count 'em!) libraries for ecash starting
to become available, we will hopefully see people working to put ecash
code into MUAs, remailers, etc.

   - Ian "and I'll be one of them..."

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