Re:How ‘strong anonymity’ will finally fix the privacy problem
by Animats on Saturday October 08, 2016 @06:08PM
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But it uses blockchains, and blockchains are magic. Distributed blockchains with VC funding, no less.
Re:How ‘strong anonymity’ will finally fix the privacy problem
by mikekchar on Saturday October 08, 2016 @06:12PM
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I could not find a non-paywalled definition of strong anonymity. The closest I got was the abstract for a paper by Kawai et al (2009) that claimed it would define the term, but failed to do so in the abstract.
I've also done a search for strong anonymity and deniability and I don't see anything that indicates there is a link. I wonder if there is a problem with definitions here. Can you give a link to what you think of as strong anonymity?
Re:How ‘strong anonymity’ will finally fix the privacy problem
by saurik on Saturday October 08, 2016 @07:48PM
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FWIW, I spent a minute with Google and found this (and hopefully copy and pasting this link has meaning).
https://books.google.com/books?id=JTKHDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA231&lpg=...
Re:How ‘strong anonymity’ will finally fix the privacy problem
by mikekchar on Monday October 10, 2016 @02:30AM
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Interesting. Although you will note that in their definition, one of the parties (the bank) knows the identity of the customers. By tracing the transactions, they can deduce the identity. The original article specified pseudonymous transactions, so either the system is trivially strong privacy or (more reasonably) this definition is not really suited to this discussion.
If "You can be very sure that any transaction you make cannot be disputed." then you DON'T have strong anonymity.