From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 03:08:51 +0800
To: John Kelsey <kelsey@plnet.net>
Subject: Re: Applying ``Crowds'' idea to anonymous e-cash.
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On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, John Kelsey wrote:
> 
> Crowds, for those who haven't seen it, is a way of
> giving web users partial anonymity by making it impossible
> to determine which member of some ``crowd'' of users did
> some action (such as requesting a document).  (This is a
> very rough summary--read the paper for the real analysis.)

Some people from MSFT proposed a similar concept at FC'97. As for its 
real life value, the legal term for such a system is "conspiracy".


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