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Re: Unforgeable Blinded Credentials
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Thu Apr 20 13:45:11 2006
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Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 08:03:46 -0700
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
To: bear <bear@sonic.net>
Cc: Adam Back <adam@cypherspace.org>, Hal Finney <hal@finney.org>,
cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0604191152150.4219@bolt.sonic.net>
bear wrote:
>
> 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."
If they represent cash, then lots. The more the better.
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