I caught part of it. The general theme was,~"we're going to establish a `partnership' with digicash / crypto firms to ensure that our `legitimate law-enforcement needs' are designed into the products."~ bd On Mon, 1 Jan 1996, Wink Junior wrote:

Dave Feustel <feustel@netcom.com> on talk.politics.crypto mentioned that on Saturday morning CSPAN was broadcasting congressional hearings on "currency creation, during which smartcards, Ecash, encryption, privacy and government regulation of all of the above were discussed." There's supposed to be at least one rebroadcast.

A brief review of the highlights would be very interesting.

Wink

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