-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hello Marcel van der Peijl <bigmac@digicash.com> and jamesd@echeque.com, cypherpunks@toad.com MvdP wrote:
"James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com> wrote:
if it was like "real" cash, then it really would be lost. It is really lost. ... I could give a hint: your random state initializer is not the too-often used srand( time( NULL ) ) but user-chosen during installation.
This sounds great... Will the bank be running crack against the proto-coins it gets? (Say, at the behest of a LEA?) Is there any way for the user to re-initialize the random state?
Write that initializer down and you can re-generate all coins. ...
That's going to be one hell of a valuable piece of paper. (Certainly to your enemies/prosecutors - it reveals the blinding factors for every coin you ever spent.) Please tell me I've got it all wrong... Jiri - -- If you want an answer, please mail to <jirib@cs.monash.edu.au>. On sweeney, I may delete without reading! PGP 463A14D5 (but it's at home so it'll take a day or two) PGP EF0607F9 (but it's at uni so don't rely on it too much) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2i iQCVAwUBMIw44ixV6mvvBgf5AQEbEQP/dxnyqUNdtz46s19snQSr4lPTd7dtN7Bx SJRl9IovlBx3qqMIkf/n/kp9pGPrfv9iUPzKVVQRjX9q1jsRYDxBwEwPAIZTXX1d epwrYkGhO0R3PEz71u9O8FMz2vHHnGT8cjP7zSAnqIikqXfKdwRzy1wBtK5qUUPj upYwGZUXK7M= =tuu2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----