-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In article <199509052310.QAA10027@jobe.shell.portal.com>, hfinney@shell.portal.com (Hal) wrote:

This is not completely correct; there is a degree of anonymity in DigiCash's ecash. That is anonymity of how a person spends his money. Neither the bank nor the payor is in a position to learn who or where a particular piece of ecash comes from (assuming that anonymous communication means are used).

So it is harder to compile dosiers on people. Big deal. The recipient can still determine who gets the goods paied for by the "anonymous" ecash by conventional means (hint: shipping address), so the payee anonymity is of little value as far as protecting the privacy of the payer (most likely the recipient of the goods) is concerened. Ecash of course is of *no* value for the various assasination markets, drug dealing, money laundring, etc that routinely get mentioned in the same paragraph as Ecash. The reason is the *full traceability* of the payee that has been deliberately built into the current version of Ecash. A "feature" that you may rest assured will be part of all future versions backed by anyone with even marginal reputation in the financial markets. - -- - -- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred. - --- [This message has been signed by an auto-signing service. A valid signature means only that it has been received at the address corresponding to the signature and forwarded.] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Gratis auto-signing service iQBFAwUBMEz/CyoZzwIn1bdtAQErdwGA3TrIYF5+O1EOQ+qdCyZRo8ePJnxmAAAl EeES8xBtWDBFwqUXTFRbj1hqLv9kwQ6K =7w8Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----