double-spending prevention w. spent coins (Re: [Lucrative-L] lucrative accounts revisited)
Patrick
patrick at lfcgate.com
Thu Apr 24 15:18:45 PDT 2003
> If there is any problem of "linkability" in this scheme, please help
me
> see it. The server does not log any socket events or transaction
> records of any kind. OK, if someone put a gun to my head and said
"put
> in some code to log everything" then they might be able to discern
some
> pattern like "this coin was issued to this IP address, and then three
> days later that coin was swapped from this other IP address." OK,
that
> sounds like a potential problem, but I don't see how you can hide this
> information from the server ITSELF. When you present a coin to the
> server, it is going to know from which IP address it came, and I don't
> see a way around that.
Perhaps I am mistaken, but the system you describe seems to be
unlinkable-by-policy. Lucrative is unlinkable-by-mathematics.
I believe the difference is nontrivial.
Patrick McCuller
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