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Crypto Archives: Re: Seven and a Half Nonrisks of PKI

Re: Seven and a Half Nonrisks of PKI


Subject: Re: Seven and a Half Nonrisks of PKI
From: lcs Mixmaster Remailer (mixanon.lcs.mit.edu)
Date: Wed Jan 05 2000 - 18:40:03 CST


At 6:09 PM +0000 1/5/00, Ben Laurie wrote:

> If I go to a record shop and buy a CD for
> cash, I have the CD in my hand before I part with the cash. I'm pretty
> safe. I can also find the shop again should the CD turn out to be The
> Muppets instead of The Cardigans. When I buy a CD via the web for ecash,
> how does this work? AFAICS, it doesn't, and can't.

What's the problem? People return stuff all the time.

Buy a CD from amazon.com, and if they ship you the wrong one, you send
it back and get the right one.

This isn't done with ecash, but the payment system doesn't matter much on
an exchange like this.



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