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Re: Chaum's unpatented ecash scheme
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Thu Aug 22 10:51:58 2002
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 15:43:21 +0100
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
To: Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com>
Cc: mail2news@anon.lcs.mit.edu, cypherpunks@lne.com,
cryptography@wasabisystems.com
Nomen Nescio wrote:
> Ben Laurie writes:
>
>
>>Note that the scheme as described (and corrected) is vulnerable to
>>marking by the bank, and so is not anonymous. This is discussed and
>>fixed in my paper on Lucre
>>(http://anoncvs.aldigital.co.uk/lucre/theory2.pdf).
>
>
> Actually the scheme described based on Chaum's talk (corrected for
> probable typos) is essentially what you describe in your paper as the
> Type II Defence, in section 5. Your analysis shows that it is not
> vulnerable to marking and is anonymous.
>
> Speaking of anonymous, you should give credit in your paper to Anonymous
> for discovering the possibility of marking Lucre coins, in a coderpunks
> posting at
> http://www.mail-archive.com/coderpunks@toad.com/msg02186.html, and for
> inventing the Type II Defence, both in the posting above and amplifed
> at http://www.mail-archive.com/coderpunks@toad.com/msg02323.html.
>
> It may seem pointless to credit anonymous postings, but it makes the
> historical record more clear.
Anonymous _is_ creditted, but I can add the specific URLs.
Cheers,
Ben.
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