Members of Parliament Problem

[Peter Hendrickson]

At 6:32 PM 11/17/1996, Peter Hendrickson wrote:
>At 1:23 PM 11/17/1996, Timothy C. May wrote:
>>At 11:43 AM -0800 11/17/96, Peter Hendrickson wrote:
>> For the specific example Peter cites, of a member of Parliament who doesn't
>> like the possibility of anonymity....well, he wouldn't be part of the
>> DC-Net would he? Generally, there are no cryptographic solutions that will
>> encompass the case where some member wants to speak anonymously, but no one
>> else does. If a message originates from "someone in Parliament," but only
>> one member of Parliament is set up to speak anonymously, then of course by
>> simple elimination he is the speaker. As before, this is beyond any
>> cryptographic solution.

> It turns out - amazingly enough - that this is not true!

It turns out - not so amazingly - that Tim is right!

See Hal Finney's post of about this time.  It turns out that the
other Members of Parliament do have to cooperate.

Sorry about that.

Peter Hendrickson
ph at netcom.com