[41851] in Cypherpunks
Re: digital cash and identity disclosure
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Holger Reif )
Fri Oct 20 05:52:10 1995
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 95 10:33:25 +0100
From: Holger.Reif@PrakInf.TU-Ilmenau.DE (Holger Reif )
To: sjb@universe.digex.net, wilcoxb@nag.cs.colorado.edu
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
Scott Brickner writes:
>Andreas Bogk writes:
>>But as far as I got Chaums idea, Alice would not reveal Bobs identity,
>>but rather her own. Am I missing a point here?
>
>You're right. Tim's wrong. Bob can't spend the money Alice gave him
>without depositing it in the bank and getting new money issued. Each
>coin has "This money was issued to Alice" as an invisible imprint which
>only shows up when two coins with the same serial number are together.
I don't understand how this could happen? The two coins are identical
(as I understood it from the tech backgound of ecash). what has a double-
spended coin what a copied single-spended coin not has?
Forgive if I missed relevant postings to this subject since I only read
parts from the list offline.
read you later - Holger Reif
http://remus.prakinf.tu-ilmenau.de/Reif/
