From: Hal Finney <hal@rain.org>
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 22:25:26 -0800 (PST)
To: froomkin@law.miami.edu
Subject: Re: Members of Parliament Problem
Message-ID: <199611170625.WAA03050@crypt.hfinney.com>
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From: "Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law" <froomkin@law.miami.edu>
> [Discussion of blind signatures]
>
> Brands has a better scheme that I don't understand exactly.  He recently
> attempted to explain it to me thusly:
>
> [Brands quote elided]
>
> Can anyone tell me more?

We had quite a bit of discussion of Brands' technology on the list a
couple of years ago.  Take a look at <URL:
http://chaos.taylored.com:1000/0Z/Digital-Cash/Protocols/Brands/Brands-Cash-Notes.gz >
which has several pages discussing discrete logs and some of the ideas
behind Brands' protocols.  Unfortunately I am getting cut-off versions
of these pages tonight, along with occasional failures to find a route
to this server, so hopefully it is just the net acting up again.

Hal