1996-05-25 - Re: Is Chaum’s System Traceable or Untraceable?

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From: “E. ALLEN SMITH” <EALLENSMITH@ocelot.Rutgers.EDU>
To: iang@cs.berkeley.edu
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UTC Datetime: 1996-05-25 03:49:40 UTC
Raw Date: Sat, 25 May 1996 11:49:40 +0800

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From: "E. ALLEN SMITH" <EALLENSMITH@ocelot.Rutgers.EDU>
Date: Sat, 25 May 1996 11:49:40 +0800
To: iang@cs.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re: Is Chaum's System Traceable or Untraceable?
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From:	IN%"iang@cs.berkeley.edu" 23-MAY-1996 13:56:31.71

>Ah.  I see I was misunderstood.  The goal was not to make the shop anonymous,
>but rather to be able to provide change to an anonymous payer.

	I had thought that the basic purpose of the fully anon system was just
that - full anonymnity for payer and payee. Under your suggestion, the shop
gives up this anonymnity under these circumstances in order to be able to make
change. I'm not sure if I would call that a very good tradeoff...
	-Allen





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