-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 06:03 PM 5/22/97 +0100, Adam Back wrote:
To stop this, the sender should discard the blinding values, thereby removing his ability to be later coerced, or to later trace the recipient of his cash.
Is there a way to purge blinding values from the ecash directory?
Coins are removed from the cash db when they are paid out. They are then stored in the payments db along with the payment headers, etc. The blinding factors are not stored once the coins have been paid. Regardless, removing the payments db will not cause any ill effect (that I have noticed, except for the obvious loss of payment records), so you can do that anyway if you like. (Note, this is based on a hex dump of the payments db, so it's possible I'm wrong. Anyone from Digicash who knows otherwise, please correct me.) Jeremey. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 5.0 beta Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBM4UopS/fy+vkqMxNAQFuawQAqtFVoaWjAZ3RK7HktI21T9UP5IEkB+Rt m/KkCM6xwh8VA9NUPM53et1MoPLd0qeeVqzCX7KQuY6hpo7fLku1EnkXXB6VQBeq wGYhZ3cdalRAFNtFIKj0cKqF+hlhT5uQ1UtxwHKKMtAdtHygLR94yt98Co64trBh CTGygT7lQus= =RB8s -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Jeremey Barrett VeriWeb Internet Corp. Crypto, Ecash, Commerce Systems http://www.veriweb.com/ PGP key fingerprint = 3B 42 1E D4 4B 17 0D 80 DC 59 6F 59 04 C3 83 64