On Thursday, November 8, 2001, at 07:09 PM, F. Marc de Piolenc wrote:
Tim May wrote:
Nomen Nescio and others should read Chaum's "Credentials without identity" papers. A true name is just another credential, not necessarily more important than any of several other credentials. People should think deeply about this issue.
I would like to read these papers. Are they available on-line?
If they are, search engines will very likely have indexed them. I would do the search for you, but your retainer has expired. Some of the primary papers are: David Chaum. Showing credentials without identification: Signatures transferred between unconditionally unlinkable pseudonyms. In Advances in Cryptology --- Eurocrypt '85, pages 241--244, New York, 1985. Springer-Verlag. Chaum, D. and J.H. Evertse, Showing credentials without identification: signatures transferred between unconditionally unlinkable pseudonyms, Proceedings of Crypto '86, Springer-Verlag, 1987. There is much discussion on the Cypherpunks list, and even reference in the Cyphernomicon. --Tim May "The Constitution is a radical document...it is the job of the government to rein in people's rights." --President William J. Clinton