cryptoanarchy.wiki

Arise, you have nothing to lose but your barbed wire fences!

1994-09-04 - Re: Problems with anonymous escrow 2–response

Header Data

From: jkreznar@ininx.com (John E. Kreznar)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Message Hash: 16f2c81d94430c0491ab3f16661d16d7496865853508a2343ef8465b9cc3c459
Message ID: <9409041052.AA03370@ininx>
Reply To: <199409031538.IAA03232@jobe.shell.portal.com>
UTC Datetime: 1994-09-04 10:52:50 UTC
Raw Date: Sun, 4 Sep 94 03:52:50 PDT

Raw message

From: jkreznar@ininx.com (John E. Kreznar)
Date: Sun, 4 Sep 94 03:52:50 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Problems with anonymous escrow 2--response
In-Reply-To: <199409031538.IAA03232@jobe.shell.portal.com>
Message-ID: <9409041052.AA03370@ininx>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain


-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----

Hal <hfinney@shell.portal.com> writes:

> On the other hand, untransferrable credentials are undesirable from the
> point of view of privacy. ...  It is true that at
> least the ultimate linkage between pseudonym and physical body is broken,
> but to the extent that your on-line activities _are_ your pseudonym, it
> is no more desirable to allow dossiers to be built up about your on-line
> personality than your off-line life.

But is this really true?  If a seller is using the pseudonym just to
defend himself against uninvited third parties such as tax collectors,
it would seem that accumulation of a dossier would be useless as long as
the physical seller can't be found.  What would be gained by
transferring the credential (the evidence of the seller's marketable
skills or whatever he's selling) to a new pseudonym?  I assume that the
seller receives payment by some anonymous method, perhaps electronic
cash.  Am I missing something?

	John E. Kreznar		| Relations among people to be by
	jkreznar@ininx.com	| mutual consent, or not at all.

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: 2.3a

iQCVAgUBLmmPh8Dhz44ugybJAQHBBgP7BOyYR6qWoR4rM4KKbA/G6zjoGKoyaKuH
Xp8VL57VPo+k8h1onolU9MoIpnBKMK45CL7atwRkgtNgSVzINgiCkl5xaeviVd15
+fv/xYdJz8evaINwxTA5AM5KCOxF90CsKlLqgyF/ZoGeMfwTYi4us1dHtJDr8Ot3
84RR3vFdYkk=
=oWFz
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Thread