CDR: Re: Chaumian cash redux

[Bram Cohen]

On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Declan McCullagh wrote:

> >    But of course someone did think of it before. He was just too far ahead of
> >his time. When I spoke to Chaum recently, he professed to have "burned out"
> >trying to make Digicash work. He had sold its patents to another company 
> >and was
> >no longer paying close attention to the business.
> >
> >    He did tell me about a few of his more recent breakthroughs, however. 
> > One was
> >called Digilock. "You take an ordinary key," he explained, "and put it in an
> >ordinary lock, and it looks it up in a database and says whether the key 
> >is okay
> >or not. It makes it possible for a person to have one key for everything." 
> >Yeah,
> >I know: It sounds a little far out. But then, I used to think e-cash sounded
> >pretty far out too.

Thank you Tom Wu for already inventing SRP so no other joker can patent
it.

-Bram Cohen