Re: Cypherpunks, pay per use remailers, and the good ol' , days

2001-08-13 Thread Jim Choate
On 14 Aug 2001, lcs Mixmaster Remailer wrote: > An alternative is to pay the first remailer for the whole chain, and then > to have that remailer pay the second remailer, the second remailer pay > the third remailer, and so on. This way the follow-on remailers don't > know who the original send

Re: Cypherpunks, pay per use remailers, and the good ol' days

2001-08-13 Thread lcs Mixmaster Remailer
Declan wrote, quoting himself: > > Yet some form of PPU remailer could exist today: A remailer would find a > > cookie and an encrypted-to-PPU-public-key credit card in the body of the > > message it receives. It would then debit a credit card for, say, $3 and > [...] > > The usual objection to

Re: Cypherpunks, pay per use remailers, and the good ol' days

2001-08-09 Thread measl
On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote: > Naturally you'd have to trust that at least one remailer was honest -- > but you already do that, right? Just a curiosity note (yes, I *should* RTFM, but it's about 6am, and I'm late for work, not to mention lazy today :-) While one remailer is cons

Re: Cypherpunks, pay per use remailers, and the good ol' days

2001-08-08 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 10:01:57PM -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote: > Yet some form of PPU remailer could exist today: A remailer would find a > cookie and an encrypted-to-PPU-public-key credit card in the body of the > message it receives. It would then debit a credit card for, say, $3 and [...]

Cypherpunks, pay per use remailers, and the good ol' days

2001-08-08 Thread Declan McCullagh
At 04:40 PM 8/7/01 -0700, Tim May wrote: >I disagree, slightly. The same old "improvements" are still not >implemented. Notably, pay-for-use remailers. Let me play devil's advocate here and say I'm not sure that the existence of PPU remailers would change much. First, the current state of rema