-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I have one word for all of you. Equity. :-). I expect that someday we'll vote shares for the application of non-monopolistic force just like we now "vote" for the application of monopolist force. I think statists -- including most cryptographers who should know better -- are looking this "problem" of the mutual exclusivity of "accountability" versus anonymity in electronic voting and they just don't understand what they're looking at yet. Maybe they never will. I think we're looking at something as fundamental as Coase's theorem, here, or at least Dan Geer's observation that the boundry between symmetric and asymmetric as identical to the boundry between the firm and the outside world. We're looking at the definition of crypto-anarchy here, folks. Anarcho-capitalism made real. Cheers, RAH Who still thinks that financial cryptography is the only cryptography that matters. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0.3 iQA/AwUBQIBv58PxH8jf3ohaEQJs5wCeMmLO1cuXZvhg9XAt39iFy6roLsQAnRrO GG8Yyr5ORZSP4T/D3S5mQtT1 =+4JY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'