DigiCash unlicensed for US use

Someone:
> 
> >   I don't think so.  It appears that the initial implementation of
> >DigiCash works exactly that way [based on what I've read on their W3
> >server].  Of course, I could tell you more exactly had they replied to
> >any of my four separate attempts to try it out ..
> 
> Interesting. I too have made four requests and still not received any
> software. Can you say "vapor?"
> 
>    dave

It says very clearly at the DigiCash web site that the technology is NOT
LICENSED FOR USE IN THE USA. I've been using the client quite happily from
India; though I know for sure that US sites (eg. HotWired) have e-cash servers,
there are obviously difficulties in using it there.

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Rishab wrote:

> Someone:
> > 
> > >   I don't think so.  It appears that the initial implementation of
> > >DigiCash works exactly that way [based on what I've read on their W3
> > >server].  Of course, I could tell you more exactly had they replied to
> > >any of my four separate attempts to try it out ..
> > 
> > Interesting. I too have made four requests and still not received any
> > software. Can you say "vapor?"
> > 
> >    dave

> It says very clearly at the DigiCash web site that the technology is NOT
> LICENSED FOR USE IN THE USA. I've been using the client quite happily from
> India; though I know for sure that US sites (eg. HotWired) have e-cash 
> servers, there are obviously difficulties in using it there.

Not. What one page on their server
(http://www.digicash.com/ecash/ecash-win.html) used to say was that
there are two versions of the MS Windows client. One uses the PGP 2.3
MPI library, and that version is not licensed for US use; the other
uses the RSAREF library, and, while slower, it's legal for US users.

There's now only one choice for the MS Windows version-- I suspect
that means that v2.02 and later use only the RSAREF library.

Actually, there's not a separate ecash "server" per se. If you want to
accept ecash payments (plug: check out my store at
http://www.iquest.com/~fairgate), you just write a CGI script that
calls the ecash client. Nothing much to it.

- -Paul

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> It says very clearly at the DigiCash web site that the technology is NOT
> LICENSED FOR USE IN THE USA. I've been using the client quite happily from
> there are obviously difficulties in using it there.

   Marvelous.  Regardless of licensing, if you were to look at the list 
of shops which accept DigiCash e-$, you'd notice that a fairly large 
number of them are in the United States.  

   (see http://www.digicash.nl/ecash/shops.html)

   The document I refer to (http://www.digicash.nl/ecash/trial.html) also 
states that attendees of a W3 conference in Chicago will receive $50.00 
in extra e-$.  This would seem to preclude US citizenship being a 
stumbling block to being in on the testing program.  Perhaps I'm just not 
3133+ enough.

-jon
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