StealthMonger wrote: > 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. > > What the offline paradigm has going for it is the > possibility of true, untraceable anonymity through the > use of anonymizing remailers and related technologies.
A ripple payment protocol could in practice much resemble an onion protocol. Someone trying to trace a ripple payment might find that the first level is some highly cooperative bank, and the next level is someone in the Carribean who will cooperate only if offered a suitable inducement, and upon a suitable inducement being applied, reveals that the next level is .... I suspect, however, that ripple is apt to be a violation of the money laundering laws, with ripple intermediaries being defined as straw men or smurfs. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
