On Feb 14, 2012, at 7:32 PM, Klaas Wierenga wrote:

>> Here I would use the term relationship anonymity. In the draft I used the
>> example of a MIX-net whereby the attacker is assumed to observe every
>> communication between the sender and the receiver. In your description, I
>> believe, you implicitly assume that the identity provider (passport
>> authority) does not get to see every message that the subject exchanges with
>> the relying party
> 
> Well, even more, the idp should not know at all which rp I talk to in the 
> first place. 
> 

Right. Relationship anonymity would provide you that property.

>> In any case, it is a good example. I could add it as an additional example
>> to the draft since it gets frequently mentioned in identity management
>> discussions these days.
> 
> Another example is paying cash for something that you don't want to be traced 
> to you


That may be quite difficult to deploy in practice with all the laws in the 
financial sector...
But we will ignore that use case for a moment. 

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