RE: Making the Agora Vanish | OSINT distributed haven (Intellagora)

[James A. Donald]

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At 02:06 PM 4/15/2001 -0700, Ray Dillinger wrote:
> This is true, but look at the mechanisms for enforcing contracts 
> that they *do* use.  Most of them are not compatible with anonymity, 
> and only a few are compatible with pseudonymity.

A common mechanism that they do use in Australia is an old school tie.
Such a mechanism can be readily adapted to anonymity.  For example one
could have anonymous credentials proving that this person is a member of a
certain group, credentials that the group can use to identify him as a
specific member of the group, but which outsiders cannot use to determine
which specific member of the group he is.


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