--- begin forwarded text From: brands@xs4all.nl X-Sender: brands@xs4all.nl (Unverified) Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 22:09:06 +0100 To: Robert Hettinga Subject: Available For Download: Chapter on Electronic Cash for Upcoming Handbook by CRC Press Cc: Digital Bearer Settlement List Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: Precedence: Bulk List-Subscribe: mailto:requests@philodox.com?subject=subscribe%20dbs X-Web-Archive: http://www.philodox.com/dbs-archive/ Hi all, In light of some questions about my electronic cash systems by Frank Sudia and Robert Hettinga, and some requests I received via e-mail, I decided to make available my chapter on electronic cash that I wrote mid 1996 for the upcoming "Handbook on Algorithms and Theory of Computation," Michael Atallah (editor), CRC Press, ISBN 0849326494. It is an introduction to electronic cash, and contains a high-level description of my system as well as a highly practical implementations of it. You can download the PDF file from http://www.xs4all.nl/~brands Alternatively, get it directly as http://www.xs4all.nl/~brands/draft.pdf Regards, Stefan PS The above book chapter has a very narrow focus, and does a poor job of highlighting the generality of my techniques, which are much more generally applicable than just for the purpose of electronic cash. Over the past two years, I have been busy writing a book, with the preliminary title "Electronic Money and Digital Eligibility Certificates." Currently, over 500 of the approximately 750 pages are finished, and I aim to have it published early next year. If the publisher allows it, large parts of the book will be made available as PDF files as well, but nothing is clear yet. There are also some very real commercial things happening right now; I hope to be able to announce something in the next few months as well. --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism http://www.philodox.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'