17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
6:17 p.m.
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:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred