-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In article <01I50K5LNPQG8Y4X9G@mbcl.rutgers.edu>, E. ALLEN SMITH <EALLENSMITH@ocelot.Rutgers.EDU> wrote:
From: IN%"iang@cs.berkeley.edu" 22-MAY-1996 14:51:29.42
In the "normal" protocol, the payee has to go online. In the "anon" protocol, the payer has to go online. Since you don't want to go online when you walk into a shop, you can pay the shop with the "normal" protocol, and the shop gives you change with the "anon" protocol.
That way, you never need to go online, and your identity is never compromised.
However, the shop's still is, although the bank might not be able to determine as much about how much income is coming in. OTOH, we're talking about a physical shop situation; I'm not sure how critical it is to have shop anonymnity with payor cooperation for this, since the payor can break it anyway.
Ah. I see I was misunderstood. The goal was not to make the shop anonymous, but rather to be able to provide change to an anonymous payer. - Ian -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMaSD4kZRiTErSPb1AQEa5gP/V1hAcycmBO9MMqQUng3ZdHejVgHLCa7J 1KHQgVKjJGRpUUCcARo0Yl3wtwRc2sX6TboUewVxBGAg6BLFzwwGY8D1ZgLaDk3D ktfAn3H15QF/qsdDQVyixu5P37ly1NEeU9ff5UO/KggvwGXs8jZzBXLdsvQWgbKl Ks5qQCwd/4I= =Fkgx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----