Still more on the Digicash protocol

[Futplex]

Mark Twain Bank Ecash Support writes:
> DigiCash agrees that it is desirable to encrypt the payment request. The
> problem is how? You can't use the payor's public key, since the payor is
> anonymous to the payee. 

Bill Stewart writes:
# Obviously if the payer is the one transmitting the message, she doesn't
# use her public key to encrypt; hers would be used for signature if 
# appropriate.
# She should use the payee's public key, 
[...]

But the payment request is sent from the shop (payee) to the customer (payor).

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