Re: Brands excluded from digicash beta
Hi, paul@poboy.b17c.ingr.com (Paul Robichaux) wrote:
The more I deal with Digicash, the better First Virtual looks. My technical preference is for using Brands or Chaum cash; at present, though, there aren't any shipping Brands servers, and the Digicash folks don't seem to be able to get all their socks in one bag.
Does anybody know how the chaum patents (I think they claimed somewhere that they had applied for some) affect Brands system? Wolfgang --- Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Inf. Voice: +49 261 6509 173 Wolfgang Roeckelein Fax: +49 261 6509 179 WHU Koblenz E-Mail: roeckelein@wi.whu-koblenz.de Burgplatz 2 (NeXTmail ok) D-56179 Vallendar Germany
Wolfgang Roeckelein <wolfgang@wi.WHU-Koblenz.de> writes:
Does anybody know how the chaum patents (I think they claimed somewhere that they had applied for some) affect Brands system?
Chaum has several patents relating to digital cash, the core one being a patent on the blind signature methods commonly in use. When I last heard an update on the Chaum/Brand saga it was that Brand believed his system avoided Chaum's patents while Chaum "had not yet been convinced that this was so, but it was a possibility." jim
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