Why ecash is traceable

[Timothy C. May]

At 8:47 AM 9/15/95, Donald M. Kitchen wrote:
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>Excellent discussion on the subject, actually. However, your idea of
>the "first person to the bank" maintaining anonymity via remailer block
>is flawed. First of all, if a collusion with the bank is being taken into
>account, presumably sufficient enough resources are involved that someone
>may try and track the reply block. Mixmaster (as your messages mentioned
>by name) would be necessary to eliminate the chance of tracking the block
>through combinations of replay attacks etc. (Which reminds me, has anyone

Just to clarify a minor point, I mentioned "mixes," not Mixmaster. I have
nothing against Mixmaster, but "mix" is the term Chaum invented for what we
later started to call a "remailer."

--Tim May


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