e-Cash: CAFE vs. Mondex

[Adam Shostack]

Matthias Schunter wrote:

| The CAFE system is a cheque based system. This means that the
| customer receives an electronic chequebook, where each cheque is
| (blindly) signed by the bank.  
| During each payment the customer has to use one of these signed cheques.

|  privacy-protecting
|    The privacy of the user is protected.

	How do checks protect the privacy of the user?  The bank
knows who is spending how much with whom for each check.

Adam


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