[3723] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: anonymous e-cash
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Damien Miller)
Thu Dec 5 23:51:15 1996
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 13:29:09 +1100 (EST)
From: Damien Miller <dmiller@vitnet.com.sg>
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
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On Wed, 4 Dec 1996, Darren Cook wrote:
> >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?
>
> AFAIK you cannot disguise the IP address, though an IP address only says
> what machine you sent from, not who you are.
You could proxy your transactions.
Regards,
Damien
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