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Re: EU Privacy Authorities Seek Changes in Microsoft 'Passport'

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Salz)
Tue Jan 28 10:30:06 2003

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Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 10:27:30 -0500
From: Rich Salz <rsalz@datapower.com>
To: Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>
Cc: 'bear' <bear@sonic.net>, "'R. A. Hettinga'" <rah@shipwright.com>,
	'Digital Bearer Settlement List' <dbs@philodox.com>,
	cryptography@wasabisystems.com
In-Reply-To: <001301c2c6a1$31821c40$7001a8c0@VAIO650>

> The Liberty Alliance was stillborn to begin with. Not that it made any
> practical difference, but the Liberty Alliance received an additional
> bullet through the head the day that RSA Security, a key participant in
> the Liberty Alliance, announced that they would also support Microsoft
> Passport.

{I'm not on DBS so they won't see this.}

I wasn't discussing the politics, just the architecture.  But anyway: 
if Liberty does manage to field something run by the CCard companies, 
then it will survive, and probably win.  MSFT will have to acceede to 
what Visa and MC deploy.
	/r$




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