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Re: Applying ``Crowds'' idea to anonymous e-cash.
- To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
- Subject: Re: Applying ``Crowds'' idea to anonymous e-cash.
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- Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 22:06:10 -0400
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Lucky Green wrote:
>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".
Almost everything we do could be called "conspiracy".
John has a good idea here. Let's give it room to grow.