Declan misses the mark on ecash

[Declan McCullagh]

Yeah, "appears to be unpatented." Right. Whatever.

You can take that anonymous claim to the bank.

-Declan


On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 10:00:04PM -0000, lcs Mixmaster Remailer wrote:
> Again, you misled the public by implying that all potential approaches to
> ecash were patented.  In fact, Wagner's blinding does not rely on Chaum's
> original blinding patent and in fact is designed to avoid ALL patents.
> It appears to be an unpatented method for doing ecash.  (Caveat, of
> course anyone trying to judge whether a particular technology is truly
> unpatented should consult a lawyer.)