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Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 18:34:22 +0200 (MET DST) Subject: Reducing Crypto-Anonymous Crime by 50% To: cypherpunks@toad.com From: nobody@replay.com (Anonymous) Organization: Replay and Company UnLimited X-001: Replay may or may not approve of the content of this posting X-002: Report misuse of this automated service to <abuse@replay.com> X-URL: http://www.replay.com/remailer/ Sender: owner-cypherpunks@cyberpass.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: nobody@replay.com (Anonymous) X-Loop: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net

Mike wrote:

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Alice wants to receive e$1 from Bob. She creates a random number, blinds it, and gives the blinded number to Bob. He shows the number to the Mint, asking for a withdrawal of e$1 with a signature on this coin number. Bob gives the signed and still blinded coin to Alice. She unblinds it and spends it, end of story.

It seems to me that many of the government's fascist goals for stopping strong crypto and anonymous financial transactions could be realized merely by whacking out Alice and Bob.

My analysis indicates that both risk and effort could be halfed by just wacking Alice with the same net effect. I'm passing on this suggestion to the operations desk.