ecash news: Brands & credentica.com

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Seems people missed this anonymous note about Dr Stefan Brands new
company http://www.credentica.com on cypherpunks -- interesting news
-- will Credentica persue ecash, private credentials, more liberal
licensing terms than digicash and ecash-technologies/infospace.

(Brands ecash and credential patent suite is the only major contender
to Chaum's patent suite.  Chaum's patent suite was recently acquired
by Infospace for an undisclosed amount from ecash-technologies which
earlier bought the patents when digicash filed for chapter 11
bankruptcy.)

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To: dbs at philodox.com
Cc: dcsb at ai.mit.edu
Cc: rah at shipwright.com
Subject: Brands credentica (Re: [Tsg] Micropayments & VISA?)

Your information is out of date: Brands is no longer at ZKS, last
month a new company was launched in which Brands is involved, see
www.credentica.com, the rights are not tangled up in any way (legal
separation, all rights cleared).

Paul Holman wrote:
> [...]  There are possible alternatives; Brands' patents, now tied up
> at ZKS, and other schemes which try to body swerve Chaum, but
> nothing comforting.
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