"R. A. Hettinga" wrote:

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Date: 23 Sep 2000 05:37:39 -0000 From: Anonymous <nobody@remailer.ch> To: rah@shipwright.com Cc: dbs@philodox.com, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net Subject: Re: Chaumian cash redux

Bob forwards:

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At the EFF end-of-RSA ball in SF last night David Chaum stood up and said a few enigmatic words: "Great to be here, and what's really important now is that we all come together and have a common approach. I've looked at the old ecash and, (wry smile) there were a few problems. But I've got some ideas about how to fix it and make it available in a way which avoids the kind of wars we've had in the past. I had wanted to make more of an announcement tonight, but the legal stuff is (as always) taking longer than I'd anticipated. So, thank you." [applause]

Pretty interesting. I wonder if he has an interesting new patent unencumbered way to do ecash, and if he's going to make it patent free.

Between you and me, I heard he was talking about something called a "Patent Pool", which makes me think, strangely, that patent-free ain't what we're going to get. I dunno whether this was part of the public speech, though, which is why I'm not posting publicly. Cheers, <Somebody's .sig> --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.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'