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Re: anonymous DH & MITM
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (R. A. Hettinga)
Fri Oct 3 13:34:57 2003
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Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 13:26:10 -0400
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From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>
At 2:16 PM -0700 10/2/03, bear wrote:
>That's not anonymity, that's pseudonymity.
It seems to me that perfect pseudonymity *is* anonymity.
Frankly, without the ability to monitor reputation, you don't have ways of controlling things like transactions, for instance. It's just that people are still mystified by the concept of biometric is-a-person identity, which strong cryptography can completely divorce from reputation.
Cheers,
RAH
Who's also curious about exactly what "Whielacronx" means... ;-).
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