On 2012-03-24 2:41 AM, Michael Rogers wrote:
On 22/03/12 23:41, James A. Donald wrote:
Repeating: You pseudonymously store other people's stuff, using a nym
that gains reputation thereby, and anonymously store your stuff on other
people's systems, using a nym with no reputation.
Hi James,
This is an intriguing idea, but I don't understand how cancelling out
cycles of IOUs (which sounds very much like PledgeRoute, is that right?)
can be combined with Chaumian mixing of IOUs.
It is pledge route, more or less. Plus anonymity, plus trust testing,
three good ideas that go well together.
Pledge route has transferable IOUs. Just make the transfer untraceable,
so that Carol cannot discover that the IOU cashed by Bob is the same IOU
as Carol issued to Ann.
Ann supplies some storage to Carol. Carol issues blinded IOUs for that
amount and time. Ann unblinds the IOUs, uses them to pay Bob for
storage, or possibly Ann is in fact Bob. Bob uses the IOUs to obtain
storage from Carol.
Let's say for the sake of argument that we've solved the problem of
finding a trustworthy party to perform the mixing.
Let us not.
Let us suppose the IOUs are issued by Carol who is completely untrusted.
Since they are blinded, when someone cashes in one of Carol's IOUs
with Carol for storage, Carol cannot tell whether it was the one she
originally issued to Bob, or originally issued to Ann.
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