-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In article <01I53GAYSQUC8Y4Z90@mbcl.rutgers.edu>, E. ALLEN SMITH <EALLENSMITH@ocelot.Rutgers.EDU> wrote:
From: IN%"iang@cs.berkeley.edu" 23-MAY-1996 13:56:31.71
Ah. I see I was misunderstood. The goal was not to make the shop anonym= ous, but rather to be able to provide change to an anonymous payer.
I had thought that the basic purpose of the fully anon system was just that - full anonymnity for payer and payee. Under your suggestion, the shop gives up this anonymnity under these circumstances in order to be able to = make change. I'm not sure if I would call that a very good tradeoff... -Allen
Yes, that's the _basic_ purpose, but the "anon" protocol has several useful "secondary" properties as well. This (providing change to an anonymous payer) is one of them. - Ian -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMatj1kZRiTErSPb1AQH0PQP/U6SvqgUew4oDQjo5U4mRJurDm0Co+3va YCQ6TvqfkkvQDMu3HtFqolBKa6CAhJXz3RFq1mEV50F/VvafD45Utui6btH4JSCh 1xljSeGO6aF7cFW5NhSe/r8oW1IkwQbb6vkJRZQlt2fYr1qTjYp2+PmJsHXbIqk+ z1aV/VYiJdI= =r7eJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----