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Re: Applying ``Crowds'' idea to anonymous e-cash.

To: John Kelsey <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Applying ``Crowds'' idea to anonymous e-cash.
From: Lucky Green <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 12:02:11 -0700 (PDT)
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On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, John Kelsey wrote:
> 
> Crowds, for those who haven't seen it, is a way of
> giving web users partial anonymity by making it impossible
> to determine which member of some ``crowd'' of users did
> some action (such as requesting a document).  (This is a
> very rough summary--read the paper for the real analysis.)

Some people from MSFT proposed a similar concept at FC'97. As for its 
real life value, the legal term for such a system is "conspiracy".


-- Lucky Green <mailto:[email protected]> PGP encrypted mail preferred

References:
- Applying ``Crowds'' idea to anonymous e-cash.
  - From: "John Kelsey" <[email protected]>

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