Digital cash and campaign finance reform

[Steve Schear]

At 04:51 PM 9/8/2003 -0700, Joseph Ashwood wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Steve Schear" <s.schear at comcast.net>
>To: <cypherpunks at lne.com>; <cryptography at metzdowd.com>
>[anonymous funding of politicians]
> > Comments?
>
>Simple attack: Bob talks to soon to be bought politician. "Tomorrow you'll
>recieve a donation of $50k, you'll know where it came from."
>Next day, buyer makes 500 $100 donations (remember you can't link him to any
>transaction), 50k arrives through the mix. Politician knows where it came
>from, but no one can prove it.

Not so fast.  I said the mix would delay and randomize the arrival of 
payments.  So, some of the contributions would arrive almost immediately 
others/many might take weeks to arrive.

steve


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