-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Robert Hettinga wrote:

Any argument which uses anonymity as the first cause for implementing a digital cash system deserves to lose. Like sophisticated engraving, intaglio printing, and a zealous anti-counterfeiting effort, strong crypto and zealous anti-double spending efforts are the technologies which enable trust in a digital cash certificate for it's own sake.

This may be true, but how exactly do you plan to argue "anonymity" is necessary in a digital cash system (from the point of view of the bank and stores)? I mean, strong crypto could provide "zealous anti-counterfeiting" without providing anonymity.

Privacy, and maybe even crypto-anarchy or anarcho-capitalism, is the icing on the cake.

Precisely my point. Except I think the icing will be left off. Oh, and in response to Tim May, no, I'm not afraid to use my real name; I've been on this list quite a while (perhaps this is useless trivia). I just thought I'd try comminicating via anonymous remailer, perhaps establishing a pseudonym while I'm at it, so I'll be signing posts from now on (actually I already signed one previous post). Just playing around with some crypto-anarchy concepts. Thoth -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6 iQCVAgUBLmFhkfFYvlqvuKtBAQFFTgP9G1A8OtshS9DYFnNXyAYMkefHG9ECifKC 01b6A8ic/gdeEBkn0G1RpVfGlMEUqRrs7w6Q0jxaRv3HEKvOKN2a3wXA0w5ao+RX 3AB2aBiIY2awANBzCM6MZBw2q9sLn8ITWTokxs/j7wV2WMyBh1/2NlIuHBkNyf0X pSGTo43oHfw= =k1Cm -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----