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Re: Applying ``Crowds'' idea to anonymous e-cash.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucky Green)
Thu Oct 9 15:16:57 1997
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 12:02:11 -0700 (PDT)
From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
To: John Kelsey <kelsey@plnet.net>
cc: Coderpunks List <coderpunks@toad.com>,
"Perry's Crypto List" <cryptography@c2.net>,
cypherpunks <cypherpunks@algebra.com>
In-Reply-To: <199710091652.LAA14607@email.plnet.net>
On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, John Kelsey wrote:
>
> Crowds, for those who haven't seen it, is a way of
> giving web users partial anonymity by making it impossible
> to determine which member of some ``crowd'' of users did
> some action (such as requesting a document). (This is a
> very rough summary--read the paper for the real analysis.)
Some people from MSFT proposed a similar concept at FC'97. As for its
real life value, the legal term for such a system is "conspiracy".
-- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred
