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