[3658] in WWW Security List Archive
anonymous e-cash
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Diane Ellison)
Tue Dec 3 02:26:08 1996
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 1996 22:39:16 -0700
From: Diane Ellison <dyann@ix.netcom.com>
Reply-To: diane.ellison@asu.edu
To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Greetings!
I work for a bank, and I am doing independent research at ASU.
I am trying to come up to speed on Web security issues. After
many long hours of reading definitions etc., I am confused by
the Internet Payment ads that describe e-cash as "totally anonymous."
QUESTION: How can a sender be totally anonymous to the receiver,
especially when the receiver needs to return a response? The
"note" can be disguised with blinding, but how can the sender's
IP address be disguised?
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