Printed Ecash decoder now available
Marc Briceno
marc at digicash.com
Sun Feb 16 14:41:08 PST 1997
Ian Goldberg <iang at cs.berkeley.edu> won the second part of the "turn Ecash
into 2-D bar code and back into an Ecash payment" contest. Building on
Jeremey Barrett's Ecash -> PDF417 encoder, Ian wrote an Ecash PDF417
encoder and decoder.
http://www.isaac.cs.berkeley.edu/tools/pdf417-1.0.tar.gz
It is now possible to print Ecash on a laser printer and scan it back in on
a standard flat bed scanner. Possible applications include sending Ecash by
fax or mail.
Ian notes the following:
"Also: these are general PDF417 tools; they can be used to encode any
binary data, not just ecash (the decoder will _not_ be able to decode
arbitrary barcodes; it doesn't know about "numeric compaction" mode
and other things in the spec that the encoder doesn't actually use)."
Congratulations to Ian for this accomplishment!
-- Marc Briceno <mailto:marc at digicash.com>
Ecash(tm) Electronic Cash Evangelist/Developers Support
<http://www.digicash.com/>
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