NODE 8805feafRe: Still more on the Digicash protocol
frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)Fri, 8 Dec 95 11:50:12 PST
At 12:26 12/8/95 -0600, Mark Twain Ecash Support wrote:
>DigiCash agrees that it is desirable to encrypt the payment request. The
>problem is how? You can't use the payor's public key, since the payor is
>anonymous to the payee. There are other, high overhead, protocols that might
>be used, but after taking MIM into account, securing the payment request
>from within Ecash while retaining acceptable latency is much harder to
>acomplish than one might think.
Wouldn't a Diffie-Hellman key exchange work here? Or is that too much overhead?
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