Security-by-credential or security-by-inspection

[Tim May]

On Thursday, November 8, 2001, at 07:09 PM, F. Marc de Piolenc wrote:

> Tim May wrote:
>
>> Nomen Nescio and others should read Chaum's "Credentials without
>> identity" papers. A true name is just another credential, not
>> necessarily more important than any of several other credentials. 
>> People
>> should think deeply about this issue.
>
> I would like to read these papers. Are they available on-line?
>

If they are, search engines will very likely have indexed them.

I would do the search for you, but your retainer has expired.

Some of the primary papers are:

David Chaum. Showing credentials without identification: Signatures 
transferred between unconditionally unlinkable pseudonyms. In Advances 
in Cryptology --- Eurocrypt '85, pages 241--244, New York, 1985. 
Springer-Verlag.

Chaum, D. and J.H. Evertse, Showing credentials without identification: 
signatures transferred between unconditionally unlinkable pseudonyms, 
Proceedings of Crypto '86, Springer-Verlag, 1987.


There is much discussion on the Cypherpunks list, and even reference in 
the Cyphernomicon.

--Tim May
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