At 5:27 AM 11/30/95, Timothy C. May wrote: <snip>
My intuition (hand-waving) is that an anonymous lottery is possible, but I haven't looked at the details. Certainly multiple trusted holders of keys (escrow agents) would help make the lottery fair. Maybe bit commitment would help (each player buys the right to play, then "commits" his number. A public reading of the winning number occurs, and the winner can reveal his winning number (anonymously if he wishes, providing he had registered his hash....).
My bet it would work a lot like anonymous voting schemes would, though I don't know how. It just feels like the same kind of thing... Cheers, Bob ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com) e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA (617) 958-3971 "Reality is not optional." --Thomas Sowell The NEW(!) e$ Home Page: http://thumper.vmeng.com/pub/rah/
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