From: Alex Strasheim <alex@omaha.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 94 12:09:51 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: cut & choose
Message-ID: <199412082010.OAA00148@omaha.omaha.com>
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In Applied Cryptography, Schneier describes digital cash protocols that
depend on the cut and choose method:  Alice prepares 100 anonymous money
orders for $100, sends them all to the bank, which opens all the envelopes
except one picked at random.  If the 99 envelopes checked have money
orders for $100, then the bank is confident that the one they sign blindly
will be for $100 as well. 

Chaum's system uses different keys for different denominations.  Alice 
only sends one envelope, and the bank uses its $100 key to sign it.

I don't understand why anyone would use the cut and choose protocol over 
denominated keys.  Chaum's method seems a lot cleaner to me and more 
secure.  It obviously uses less bandwidth.  What am I missing here?

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Alex Strasheim | finger astrashe@nyx.cs.du.edu
alex@omaha.com | for my PGP 2.6.1. public key

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