@InProceedings{Riv97b, author = { Ronald L. Rivest }, title = { Electronic Lottery Tickets as Micropayments }, pages = { 307--314 }, OPTurl = { http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-63594-7_87 }, doi = { 10.1007/3-540-63594-7_87 }, booktitle = { Proceedings Financial Cryptography '97 }, date = { 1997 }, publisher = { Springer }, editor = { Rafael Hirschfeld }, series = { Lecture Note in Computer Science }, volume = { 1318 }, organization = { IFCA }, OPTyear = { 1997 }, OPTmonth = { February 24--28, }, eventdate = { 1997-02-24/1997-02-28 }, eventtitle = { FC '97 }, venue = { Anguilla, British West Indies }, abstract = { We present a new micropayment scheme based on the use of ``electronic lottery tickets.'' This scheme is exceptionally efficient since the bank handles only winning tickets, instead of handling each micropayment. }, }