Are any of Chaum's papers on untraceable mail and digital cash available on the Net? Advise and thanks.
Jeff
Chaum's paper on the "Dining Cryptographers Problem," which appeared in Vol. 1, No. 1 of the "Journal of Cryptology," was posted to the list by the ILF (Information Liberation Front). It has appeared a couple of times, so check the Cypherpunks archives. The earlier CACM (the 1981 paper on "mixes," the seminal 1985 paper on untraceable cash) papers are not likely to appear, I would guess. First, these journals are widely available. Chaum's article in "Scientific American" last summer is easy to find. Second, the many diagrams and equations make ASCII presentation problematic. (Chaum's DC-Net paper was mostly text, with no diagrams, so ASCII versions were faithful.) Third, it takes a lot fo work ot scan and OCR a paper, even one without equations and diagrams, and the payback just isn't there. I will repeat here what I have said before: Anyone serious about this stuff should take the few hours it will take to find a decent-sized library and make copies of these and other important papers. ASCII versions are not adequate. The "crypto" section of libraries also will expose the visitor to the whole universe of crypto--the journals, the Proceedings, the various books. And Xeroxes of specific papers are cheap--a lot cheaper than having someone spend several hours scanning and OCRing a paper, correcting the many flaws, figuring out an ASCII representation of equations and diagrams, etc. (Non-OCRed images are of course prohibitively large, and I doubt my friends in the ILF are interested in this avenue.) This is not a flame directed at Jeff, just a call for people to do things the old-fashioned way, namely, to read the sources. -Tim May -- .......................................................................... Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@netcom.com | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero 408-688-5409 | knowledge, reputations, information markets, W.A.S.T.E.: Aptos, CA | black markets, collapse of governments. Higher Power: 2^756839 | Public Key: PGP and MailSafe available. Note: I put time and money into writing this posting. I hope you enjoy it.