[3666] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: anonymous e-cash
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dennis Boone)
Tue Dec 3 15:11:14 1996
To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
From: Dennis Boone <drb@gopher.cl.msu.edu>
In-Reply-To: (Your message of Tue, 03 Dec 96 20:34:51 O.)
<199612031134.UAA15116@sucaba.isl.ntt.co.jp>
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 96 13:08:41 -0500
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
> "Totally anonymous" means that the receiver can't know the sender's
> name from the information which was given by an e-cash protocol.
> To know the name and to know the IP address are different.
Actually, these days, with all the PCs connected to the network,
learning the name given the IP address may not be all that difficult.
Considering that people are going to want to buy anything from dog
food to the robes of a senator (with the senator still inside :-)
that's not a trivial consideration.
Dennis Boone
MSU CWIS Team
