NODE a9789890Re: e$: The Book-Entry/Certificate Distinction
"James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>Wed, 23 Aug 95 22:28:20 PDT
At 12:01 PM 8/22/95 -0400, Robert Hettinga wrote:
> It's easy
> to see how a combination of certification technology and cryptographically
> anonymous voting protocols allow the direct election of a company's board
> members without proxies -- another hierarchical device -- for instance.
It is not so easy for me to see how such protocols allow the
shareholders to control the company's keys if the CEO
tells the shareholders to go and stick their heads
in a bucket.
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