14 Jun
2001
14 Jun
'01
4:06 p.m.
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 07:00:21PM -0000, lcs Mixmaster Remailer wrote:
It is a botched attempt to describe the "cut and choose" mechanism.
Right, it was an attempt to describe "cut and choose" in three sentences or so. It's a news article, not a technical paper. Deal.
The article also contains a recap of the Chaum/Brands patent wars. It would have been more interesting if there were some reference to new approaches to ecash that avoid the patents, such as the Lucre software by Ben Laurie, based on David Wagner's blinding (http://anoncvs.aldigital.co.uk/lucre/
The point of that section of the article was to talk about available patents. Wagner's scheme appears to reply on Chaum's (original) patents, so it wasn't relevant. -Declan