Re: blind cash, baby

Lewis McCarthy (lmccarth@cs.umass.edu)
Sat, 6 Mar 1999 12:51:17 -0500

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Anonymous writes:
> At 11:40 PM 3/5/99 +0100, Anonymous wrote:
> >Here's another online digital cash idea, a variant on Chaum's blind
> >signatures.
>
> Please use Alice, Bob, and Eve, the "eavesdropper" (get it?).

Peggy (the Prover) and Victor (the Verifier) are also standard in the
literature. Anon #1's usage struck me as entirely reasonable for this
protocol.

-Lewis

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