Dan, The 9 servers are operated by Chaum, and is the software and OS config open source and 3rd party verifiable as being the same as running on the servers? 9 servers will be operated in 9 different jurisdictions, not by 9 separate unrelated 'entities'. 'Trust us' is just something we've become accustomed to not needing. Travis On Fri, Jan 8, 2016, 11:48 PM <dan@geer.org> wrote:
Tracerneo writes: | On 7 January 2016 at 05:51, grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail.com> wrote: | >online privacy | >encryption scheme | >backdoor that allows anyone..to have their anonymity and privacy stripped | altogether | | I don't know, maybe I'm retarded, but this doesn't compute. | | What I'm afraid though, is that such abominations might catch on, | because people like adopting flawed things, that give them illusion of | control.
With respect, the stripping involved requires unanimity amongst the nine sites, each much different than the other. If one is to dismiss Chaum's scheme due to the possibility of 9-way unanimous collusion, then, in like manner, all threshold (split-key) cryptosystems are unacceptable. And then there is the DNS where the possibility of collusion amongst all root servers would also trigger disavowal of the DNS.
I'm probably missing your point.
--dan