Re: [fc-discuss] Financial Cryptography Update: On Digital Cash-like Payment Systems

John Kelsey wrote: From: cyphrpunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Digital wallets will require real security in user PCs. Still I don't see why we don't already have this problem with online banking and similar financial services. Couldn't a virus today steal people's passwords and command their banks to tr

Re: [fc-discuss] Financial Cryptography Update: On Digital Cash-like Payment Systems

R. Hirschfeld wrote: Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 11:31:39 -0700 From: cyphrpunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2. Cash payments are final. After the fact, the paying party has no means to reverse the payment. We call this property of cash transactions _irreversibility_. Certainly Chaum ecash has this prope

Re: [fc-discuss] Financial Cryptography Update: On Digital Cash-like Payment Systems

cyphrpunk wrote: If this is the model, my concern is that in practice it will often be the case that there will be few intermediate exchanges. Particularly in the early stages of the system, there won't be that much to buy. Someone may accept epoints for payment but the first thing he will do is

Re: How to Stop Junk E-Mail: Charge for the Stamp

Peter Gutmann wrote: Barry Shein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Eventually email will just collapse (as it's doing) and the RBOCs et al will inherit it and we'll all be paying 15c per message like their SMS services. And the spammers will be using everyone else's PC's to send out their spam,

Re: Identity thieves can lurk at Wi-Fi spots

R.A. Hettinga wrote: The facility uses software and sensors to monitor 480 wireless devices used by medical personnel at 110 access points. Last month, it stopped about 120 attempts to steal financial information from medical perso

Re: Dell to Add Security Chip to PCs

Ed Reed wrote: I'm just curious on this point. I haven't seen much to indicate that Microsoft and others are ready for a nymous, tradeable software assets world. No, and neither are corporate customers, to a large extent. Right, so my point (I think) was that without some indication that t

Re: Dell to Add Security Chip to PCs

Erwann ABALEA wrote: On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Trei, Peter wrote: Seeing as it comes out of the TCG, this is almost certainly the enabling hardware for Palladium/NGSCB. Its a part of your computer which you may not have full control over. Please stop relaying FUD. You have full control over your

Re: AOL Help : About AOL® PassCode

Joerg Schneider wrote: So, PassCode and similar forms of authentication help against the current crop of phishing attacks, but that is likely to change if PassCode gets used more widely and/or protects something of interest to phishers. Actually I have been waiting for phishing with MITM to app

Re: AOL Help : About AOL® PassCode

R.A. Hettinga wrote: Have questions? Search AOL Help articles and tutorials: . If you no longer want to use AOL PassCode, you must release your screen name from your AOL PassCode so that you will no longer n