From: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 18:38:11 -0800 (PST)
To: Robert Hettinga <cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Blessing in Disguise? (H.R. 98, the "Consumer Internet Privacy Protection Act of 1997")
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At 12:27 PM 2/6/97 -0500, Robert Hettinga wrote:
>
>This attempted legislation (see forward, below) is a blessing in disguise.
>
>It's just more proof that book-entry commerce isn't going to work on the
>net in the long run.
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>+  SET, Cybercash/coin, SSL, and other encrypted-channel book entry
>methods, is a derigeble. You're flying, but you're using minimally strong
>crypto like little aerodynamic fins to push the giant gas bag of book-entry
>settlement around.

Now, is that a helium or a HYDROGEN dirigible?!?

Jim Bell
jimbell@pacifier.com