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Re: Microsoft patent

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William H. Geiger III)
Fri Jun 26 11:19:43 1998

From: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@invweb.net>
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 00:42:15 -0500
To: Wei Dai <weidai@eskimo.com>
In-Reply-To: <19980625171511.B20453@eskimo.com>
Cc: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net,
        coderpunks@toad.com, dcsb@ai.mit.edu, cryptography@c2.net,
        e$@vmeng.com

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In <19980625171511.B20453@eskimo.com>, on 06/25/98 
   at 05:15 PM, Wei Dai <weidai@eskimo.com> said:

>Actually Dan Simon's system doesn't use blinding at all. The abstract
>below specificly says the coin is in an unblinded form. I think you can
>get Dan's Crypto '96 paper on the Microsoft Research web page at
>research.microsoft.com, but it seems to be down right now. The paper has
>a much better description of the system.

When M$ starts writting financial & banking software it's time to invest
in gold.

Be afraid, be *very* afraid.

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