>They can't be as "anonymous as cash" if the party being dealt with >can be identified. And the party can be identified if the >transaction is "online, real-time". Even if other clues are erased, >there's still traffic analysis in this case.
If I show up at a store and pay cash for something every week, they can still do traffic analysis on me ("oh him, he's a regular customer") unless I go out of my way to obscure my routine like asking other people to buy stuff for me. It's not clear to me what the object of this argument is. Yes, the harder you work, the more difficult you can make it for other people to tie your transactions to you. This shouldn't be news to anyone. R's, John --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]