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Re: Members of Parliament Problem



At 6:32 PM 11/17/1996, Peter Hendrickson wrote:
>At 1:23 PM 11/17/1996, Timothy C. May wrote:
>>At 11:43 AM -0800 11/17/96, Peter Hendrickson wrote:
>> For the specific example Peter cites, of a member of Parliament who doesn't
>> like the possibility of anonymity....well, he wouldn't be part of the
>> DC-Net would he? Generally, there are no cryptographic solutions that will
>> encompass the case where some member wants to speak anonymously, but no one
>> else does. If a message originates from "someone in Parliament," but only
>> one member of Parliament is set up to speak anonymously, then of course by
>> simple elimination he is the speaker. As before, this is beyond any
>> cryptographic solution.

> It turns out - amazingly enough - that this is not true!

It turns out - not so amazingly - that Tim is right!

See Hal Finney's post of about this time.  It turns out that the
other Members of Parliament do have to cooperate.

Sorry about that.

Peter Hendrickson
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