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Re: Unforgeable Blinded Credentials
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bear)
Wed Apr 19 16:10:59 2006
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Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 11:53:18 -0700 (PDT)
From: bear <bear@sonic.net>
To: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
Cc: Adam Back <adam@cypherspace.org>, Hal Finney <hal@finney.org>,
cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <443806B1.6040408@algroup.co.uk>
On Sat, 8 Apr 2006, Ben Laurie wrote:
>> Well the other kind of disincentive was a credit card number. My
>> suggestion was to use a large denomination ecash coin to have
>> anonymous disincentives :) ie you get fined, but you are not
>> identified.
>
>The problem with that disincentive is that I need to sink the money for
>each certificate I have. Clearly this doesn't scale at all well.
>
Um, if it's anonymous and unlinkable, how many certificates do you
need? I should think the answer would be "one."
Bear
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