-- At 02:06 PM 4/15/2001 -0700, Ray Dillinger wrote:
This is true, but look at the mechanisms for enforcing contracts that they *do* use. Most of them are not compatible with anonymity, and only a few are compatible with pseudonymity.
A common mechanism that they do use in Australia is an old school tie. Such a mechanism can be readily adapted to anonymity. For example one could have anonymous credentials proving that this person is a member of a certain group, credentials that the group can use to identify him as a specific member of the group, but which outsiders cannot use to determine which specific member of the group he is. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 47YeAg9+TArpQDzL5n7RWzi2JSPVpZzn0gZb7A85 4mjN0t0N0+mSUv3M166tnHiT/IUk9mF3TfmBWJ+s8 ----------------------------------------------------- We have the right to defend ourselves and our property, because of the kind of animals that we are. True law derives from this right, not from the arbitrary power of the omnipotent state. http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ James A. Donald