At 5:41 PM -0600 10/27/03, Neil Johnson wrote: >Will ECC work with blinding (Chaum, Brands, etc.) techniques?
I've heard serious people discuss it with a straight face, at least. Chaumian blinding is simply big number multiplication, right? And Chaum's double-spending detection is an M-of-N hash where M=N=2. So doing that to an ECC message/public-key shouldn't be hard... Cheers, RAH -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
