[3683] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: anonymous e-cash
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Rose)
Wed Dec 4 10:27:01 1996
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 08:25:17 -0500 (EST)
From: Jacob Rose <jacob@whiteshell.com>
To: Darren Cook <darren@factcomm.co.jp>
Cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <19961204015827140.AAD307@p07.pm-3.escot.co.jp>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
On Wed, 4 Dec 1996, Darren Cook wrote:
> AFAIK you cannot disguise the IP address, though an IP address only says
> what machine you sent from, not who you are.
It really doesn't generally say what machine most users sent from; most
home users connect through PPP to their ISPs, so their IP address varies.
Really what the IP address indicates accurately is what network the user
connected from.
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Jacob Rose All you and I must agree upon is peace.
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