Re: anonymity and e-cash

["Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law" <froomkin@law.miami.edu>]

On Wed, 12 Feb 1997, Lee Tien wrote:
> Is payee anonymity technically possible?  Under what conditions?
> 
Yes.

In addition to having "money changers" play an anonymizing role, one can
use an anonymous bank account.  Contrary to intuition, banks might be
willing to set these up with cryptographic safeguards.

See http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/oceanno.htm#ENDNOTE286

which describes otherwise unpublished work by Brands (by permission).

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